"The principle goal of Capitalism is to turn everything into garbage as fast as possible and to extract as much gold as practical in the process." - Zobo the Clown
This truism is a little bit of a joke, but consider this: When you build a house, you cut down trees, dig up dirt, crush rocks, make cement, melt sand to make glass, spray poisonous chemicals to add color and ship all those various products all over the country in semi trucks that burn gasoline. The raw weight of waste products from all that industrial activity far exceeds the weight of the house. So, from a global perspective, the process of building a house actually creates twice as much destruction and waste products that we as humans are mostly unaware of. In our understanding however: "The goal of manufacturing is to generate profit by selling products made." In the process, we create even more garbage and destruction that we totally ignore and generally forget about.
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William Schaeffer
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