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Re:Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister... by nonrandomstring on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:03PM (#39277937)
A less easy fix, but one that's better for everyone is that we all just stop buying mountains and mountains of absolutely useless plastic and digital crap.

Sure we need lots of human labour to keep the world going round, but dealing with the obscenity of consumerism is where a better world begins.

These are the results [0], a kind of misery and 'poverty' (an 'affluenza') caused by unchecked material indulgence.

Surely we can address this culturally on the demand side?

[0] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/techno-clutter-farnell...

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Re:Canada Must End Reliance on Cheap Foreign Labor, Minister... by BigFnTelly on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:19PM (#39280781)
Great read. I'm glad that the author stressed how systemic tech addiction is, and not a moral failure of the individual. It's only slightly ironic that he asked for readers to plug his article on social media, but the word needs getting out.
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