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> The factory furnishes us products which are uniform by making us sacrifice the advantages of variety.
> It furnishes us products which are cheap by depriving us of the advantages of quality.
> It furnishes products which are plentiful by making us abandon the advantages of conserving labor and natural resources.
#Borsodi #ThisUglyCivilization
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This Ugly Civilization

Ralph Borsodi This Ugly Civilization 1929

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bs2Jan 16, 2023
One day I'll find #PaulGoodman's lines about Borsodi's #ThisUglyCivilization. They came to mind while reading #TomVanderbilt on #ThePallet. It's a good read but I'm wondering about how oil and climate fit in.. And Goodman's lines about #Borsodi were that gains in centralized production were lost in packaging and transportation I guess it all seems to work because of energy subsidies: Cheap oil shored up by the Pentagon and direct tax giveaways to Exxon.
https://slate.com/business/2012/08/pallets-the-single-most-important-object-in-the-global-economy.html
The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy

Earlier this spring, the Washington Conservation Corps faced a sudden influx of beach debris on the state’s southwestern shore. Time and tide were...

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