Story of Stuff, The Critique Part 3 of 4

huan beings are weak ***mentally... if we better ourseleves ***mentally, we cud bettert the world i think.

Ltrico90278 also makes an excellent point about the usefulness of old computers. I love old computers!! I wouldn't have my own computer if people actually threw them away as she portrays.

This lady claims that the media hides the rest of the material product cycle. Obviously, she's never watched the Discovery Channel.

YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT BUSH, 9/11 and ISRAEL!!

You are so wrong about computers and DVDs!! The computer companies have played exactly the game she accuses them of playing! The solution is to boycott proprietary lock-in technologies and prefer platform-independence, standards, open formats, open protocols and DRM-free content, but through the free market. These ideas actually are better, and given a free market, they will succeed.

THANK YOU! Even as a critic, his remarks are somewhat too one sided on the CAPT. side

...I hate to say it, but I agree with you on 5:21, she didnt mention the reason why the government decided to concentrate more on consumer goods AFTER WW2

Have to throw out the computer? I took an 5 year old computer and made it into a gaming machine, yeah I had to swap out a Motherboard and CPU, and a few other parts. but Hey, liberalism is the result of wishful thinking vs practical experience.

Did a leftist mouthpiece just blame the media for something?
The media are the ones fueling this eco-terror, end of the world, nonsense.
The loony left strikes again.

I love how she has no real solution, Just a nice green colored swirly picture that is supposed to represent utopia.

Yeah, eco-socialism, forced down people's throats will save the planet...

You think people who lived in soviet union did so out of free will? No, they were scared to death and could not leave.

Exactly, don't shop and don't watch TV. I don't shop and I don't watch TV. And I'm content with my old shoes and old coat and old car. Thank God we live in a free society. If I don't want to spend money I just don't do it. I'm not a lemming and do what the boob tube tells me to do.

I too love my 6 year old shoes, my 20 year old car and my TV probably hasn't been on for months except to watch a movie on a rare occasion.

There is a problem though and it's stated in the original Story of Stuff. Too many corporations adhere to the concept of planned obsolescence, and it takes away your freedom to own some things for a long time. Just take a look at the vehicles GM produces, or any of the things mentioned in the Story of Stuff.

Big corporations have too much freedom.

I liked the critique part about computers. That woman doesn't understand a thing about technology!