Unustainable forces of production/consumption: Capitalism
  • Advertising creates unsustainable needs
  • Wellbeing/status measured by consumption
  • Wages stop growing equal to productivity in 1970's
  • Workers exploited more > solace in consumption
  • Encouraged to Borrow Unsustainably
see http://vimeo.com/1962208 (Rick Wolff)
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colleges mischaracterize capitalism to support for central planning »colleges mischaracterize capitalism to support for central planning
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