I HATE plastic and here's why..

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It has always struck me as odd that the electronics market operates in the reverse of supply and demand. (ie; the higher demand the lower the price..)

Commodities, and most everything else of "value" at least seem to try to obey the rules of supply and demand.

Electronics, however, seem to operate on demand and supply.

"They" create artificial demand by hyping cool new technology while the "supply" is virtually endless..

Because said "supply" is "cheap enough to give away for free in stores as bags, or by fast food joints as toys". That supply is plastic..

It's overflowing our landfills and all industry does is create ever more of the deceptive material.

In my opinion plastic needs to go. It's main use seems to be to seperate your imaginary fiat paper wealth from your pocket.

Cellphones, DVD players, radios, stereos, TVs, video game systems, microwave ovens, 8 track players, cassette players, CD players, DVRs, water bottles, tools and toys.

Think about it.. Our economy is based, in large part, on creating artificial demand for dirt cheap plastic.

Plastic = evil profiteering

Try to imagine this, if you will..

iPods, iPads and iPhones, laptops, PCs and monitors, stero systems, cellphones and TVs, built to last decades rather than months..

Imagine if all of the above and everything else were made of wood or gold or bronze. All made of stone or carbon or glass. All made of silver or leather or exotic fabrics.

All true works of fine art.

Imagine if you always bought one of these "products" with the expectation that it would last decades rather than months.

I think all of this could be done right now but isn't..

To do so would require drastic change at the very core of our economic system.

Don't laugh.. the economy would work entirely differently. A 24 karat gold iPhone would cost more than one made of walnut or granite.

However, the economy, if free to do so, would work itself out based on the "value" of the product being offered. Rather than corporations expecting ever increasing sales of plastic containing cheap electronics that are engineered to fail within 24 to 36 months. And end up in a landfill near you.

A CD is plastic wrapped in plastic wrapped in plastic and bagged in plastic..

Please think about it.. It's all part of the matrix of lies sold to all of us as capitalism.

Greg

Strange days indeed..