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Disposable society
What a disposable society we live in.
Ever notice that there are no more "fix it" shops anymore? Who goes to get anything repaired or fixed now? Nobody. Something breaks... you throw it away and get a new one. I've got this $400 cell phone with all sorts of bullshit gadgets on it and eventually (sooner than later), it's going to break. In the trash it goes because it's going to cost me more to get it repaired than it would be to buy a new one. I know it makes more money but at my fucking cost. Stupid. I have an old rotary telephone that was in use when I was my son's age. It sat on a little telephone desk in my grand-parents house. I'd estimate that it's been around since the early sixties. It works perfectly, and I'm sure it will still work when my son's grand-kids find it and play with it. |
Out with the old in with the new - It's the way the world goes around nowadays :( Oh well.
As for your phone - I think I read on a Montreal Cell Phone forum that every Purolator pick-up center has a collection box for old cellphones. |
It's disgusting when you think about all the waste.
When that rotary phone was made and sold the money from it went back into the community where it was sold and to a US manufacturer who made it. Those monies went to US workers and US part suppliers and so on... one big continuous cycle of money changing hands within the same community. If something had happened to it some local person would have made a little money from fixing it too. Now when a phone (or almost any other device of that kind) is sold, the only people making significant money from it locally is the retailer. The rest of the money ends up going back to china or malyasia etc and circulating around over there. So the majority of the money goes overseas and what stays here is future landfill material. This nation is paying for, literally, garbage to be imported. |
Its a societal thing. We all value the latest and greatest.
While we could get things fixed, its always the lure of the next hot feature that drives us to the store. Matt |
Instant gratification - that's what we crave. We buy something and within 6 months max, there's something faster/better/sleeker or it's no longer in.
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well i don't mind the way society has good , i get some good equipment that needs little repair , fix it up then sell it off
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now that you mention it, very true, good point Evil Chris!!
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We have to be a disposible society .. lots of ppl to keep employeed.
Fixin' to hit 300 Million in the US. |
sure why not? if something breaks it should be thrown away and a new one should be bought :)
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You are looking at this from the wrong end... I guess you guys are upset about not needing riding crops any longer either.
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makes sense unfortunatley..
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