In Reply to: Do we NEED computers, cd-players etc? posted by Steve Farnham on June 05, 1996 at 17:54:45:
> the point must be that we don't neseccarily have to do without them. It is not
> inconsistant to demand accountability from multinationals and campaign for
> sustainable practices, while still wishing to buy and use consumer products.I absolutely agree. Think about what a market place really is.
You take your product into a market place and sell it to whoever
wants to buy it. It's perfectly reasonable for this system to
work effectively, whatever the product.However, this is not the case with multi-national corporations.
This system is one in which if one market place fails, a company
withdraws it's products from that market, because it is not
dependant on that market (because it is so HUGE). Thus the
demand for the product rises, and so do it's prices.So this is not a market, at all. A market is self-regulating.
This is a company which controls markets, which eats them alive.
Yuckkk!Ben Ib
(The views above are not necessarily those of the people.)
None.