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It Is No Longer Possible to Escape What We Have Done to Ourselves (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

You mean the products they designed to be as cheap as possible with no care on their impact on the environment, and then brainwashed the population through marketing to make us think we actually needed them?

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[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 9 points 3 years ago

You don't even need to brainwash. Just make sure their wage stays at a level where their survival depends on buying the cheapest of cheap, necessity will do the rest.

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

Sure. And what’s is the answer? Put in a cycle lane and people apparently go apeshit

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