Has anyone here seen this before?
http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html
What a complete load of propaganda.
Markets clear.
The tragic thing about environmentally and socially concerned folks like the woman in the video is that they correctly identify problems, but rely on completely unreasonable solutions.Take, for example, her point that multinational corporations tend to march into third world countries and exploit as many resources as they can with as little care for the life, liberty and property of local inhabitants as possible. How do they do it? They hire, of course, local governments to suppress any resistance among the population (i.e., among local property owners) and simply build cheap, polluting and dangerous facilities which expropriated locals are then forced to work in in order to make money.And her solution? "Take back the government". Oh dear.I would expect that in a polycentric order, many of the problems she names (e.g. unsustainable use of land, products designed to break sooner than necessary, reckless pollution) would disappear due to the nature of a property-based society and the real consumer democracy that would ensue. Also, the lack of a military agent with nearly unlimited resources would prevent large corporations from feeding upon occupied countries and their natural resources, another thing she's criticizing, and rightly so.However, to call it propaganda would be an unjustified defense of multinational corporations which do not only make use of, but sometimes actively support third world slavery to further their profits.