tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post6241746499314090539..comments2024-03-27T15:55:32.875+01:00Comments on W-wa Jeziorki: Stuffocation, asceticism and economic growthMichael Dembinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-91341554083355335162015-11-29T10:50:55.257+01:002015-11-29T10:50:55.257+01:00Another story is that stuff we buy are not built t...Another story is that stuff we buy are not built to last, but to fall apart and prompt a customer to swap them for a newer piece. This underlies economic growth.student SGHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01367244307612092688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-9475499280358337162015-11-26T10:41:47.442+01:002015-11-26T10:41:47.442+01:00Garage sale (UK), yard sale (US)... There's al...Garage sale (UK), yard sale (US)... There's also eBay / Allegro. Trouble is, most people already have everything. The old-style CRT TVs and PC monitors - there must have been a billion-plus of these things built. I guess most have gone to landfill. Imagine what you can do with a billion old TV sets - can build a second Himalayas!Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-56340690668902476532015-11-25T13:15:05.508+01:002015-11-25T13:15:05.508+01:00But in today's disposable society?
... there&...<i>But in today's disposable society?</i><br /><br />... there's a totally forgotten tradition called "garage sales" or... (how the Brits name it?) yeah, of course, the Jumbles What has happened with such a noble institutions like the Goodwill Stores, the Salvation Army...? O... yeah, who cares on that? So, this is so easy to throw (better if not into some forests, brushwoods, lakes, rivers or alike... or brought nearby neighborhood's fences...) it out into a litter container. Think, you do remember about of such huge heaps of a trash that begun to appear not so far from my house, on a representative street of Ursynów (Puławska Street at the Oligocene water intake) and some other places. Not heaving a TV-set table...? No problem..., here you go. Not heaving a PC's monitor...? Affordable there... just laying at an edge of that. Need some of the electric kettle...? Just help yourself... might be there.... Varnish plates....? On a stock... Hahaha Or maybe you wish to have a small fridge? Yes, there is, just delivered.... House appliances, building materials, food.... Everything.... That's the response on yours question so what about in today's disposable society. A consumption culture rises with a speed of the commercial ads appearance in the media... but... the only this sort of culture rises-up... the other totally lays down. dr Marcinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-19650178613197898492015-11-25T00:25:34.419+01:002015-11-25T00:25:34.419+01:00@ Dr Marcin:
The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh...@ Dr Marcin:<br /><br />The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away :-)<br /><br />Taking decisions - the <i>triage</i> process when faced with junk is tough. For our parents' generation, it was simple - hoard it all, one day it will come in handy. War, occupation, communism - every smallest thing has value. But in today's disposable society? As my sister-in-law once said, half of Britain's deficit with China is buried in landfill sites across the UK - crushed plastic toys, broken electronic gadgets not worth repairing, cheap decorations.<br /><br />@ Russell<br /><br />Thanks - Back mid-December!Michael Dembinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657728002439035765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-63747638111478762862015-11-24T20:21:25.325+01:002015-11-24T20:21:25.325+01:00Great article Michał, no surprise there.
Hope to s...Great article Michał, no surprise there.<br />Hope to see you back in Warszawa soon!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03210265549783439817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2650609952674727820.post-19117700170074125232015-11-24T12:12:41.911+01:002015-11-24T12:12:41.911+01:00An ascetic life... - would crush economic growth.
...<i>An ascetic life... - would crush economic growth.</i><br /><br />Mike, all of that reminds me something and is descriptive of a dilemma between the "to have" or "to be". Here on this blog, there's a documentary of yours of that enormous flooding that occurred at the ours rural deep hole on <i>Boże Ciało</i> of 2010 . So, a point is, that I do remember, as it might happened today, to what extent for me there was a happiness in that misfortune that that flooding was happened. Then in my basement (approx. 30 sq mtrs. or 323 sq feet), I had some of a big lumber-room, there. Some of the old, useless or partially damaged chairs, tables, wardrobes, PCs, high-fi... numbers of miscellaneous and other stuffs... collected mostly thru decades and possessed just only to possess'em. So, things came to such a point that there become gradually to be a lesser and lesser space to have a motion there. Obviously, there was always on my agenda to step down there and make some of a selection of those possessions and what was just ordinarily useless or unneeded to throw it out into a garbage or what was worthwhile then to keep it. And I pondered and pondered and pondered to do it until... that "Doomsday". And... once, a thunder has shoot from an entirely bright firmament... and it took of almost an hour whilst I had a problem out of my brain. Next day, it was just only to order a huge container... and to get to clean of all of that rubbish. While it has happened, I was entirely shocked, depressed, broken-down and beaten-down due to an intense, range and a power of devastations. Thought, that more than less (and rather, more) I've lost what me and my wife have had.... But, as only as trauma and emotions have become more and more calm and as fast as it was possible to bring an order within all of that, then more vividly some of a rationale has to be switched-on.... And, some times later a conclusion has being drawn on for me that perhaps the Providence (for believers) or the Mother Nature (for ecos) evidently just wanted to help me in a bringing my basement into an order. So, The Day After...? Have I signalled to an economy of any of a bigger demand or needs... just because to cover of all of that losses? No, nothing happened like that. My the only one need was to buy and install of a new stove/water heater (central heating and warm running water), just because a previous one was destroyed by a flooding and due to that that its reasonable usage period was due and exceeded fixing it became too expensive and might cost of some on 80 per cent of a new item. A moral usage period of the previous stove was estimated on some of ten years after a purchase, while a flooding damaged it at the eleventh year of exploiting. So, an insurer agreed to cover of the all of spendings of purchase and instalment of a new heater. Jolly for me. The basement was totally cleaned, a new heater appeared on now there's a plenty of room down there.... So, now, I have no a dilemma if "to have" or "to be". A conclusion is... a less you have a less you cry. But, okay, what's up with that economy? A distinctive question just for the PhD degree... :) Well, so I (but frankly sayin' - my insurer) bought a heater, after all... The Providence (for... okay, okay... everybody knows for whom) or the Mother... (yeah, yeah, yeah... we know Her) has also helped to rise the GDP of... the French economy (a producer of my heater)... All the very best.dr Marcinnoreply@blogger.com