Old fears of consumerism

Do you remember how, back in the fifties and sixties and seventies, everyone was worrying about how consumerism and advertising and keeping-up-with-the-Joneses-ism was going to be bad for society, because it would push everyone to constantly spend all their money on useless stuff they didn’t need, to benefit manufacturers and advertisers more than themselves?  I wonder why it never occurred to us back then that the Powers that Be could easily cut out the middleman, and get that money with a lot less effort by simply not paying decent wages anymore.

Organics meet Robotics

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