I read this article today about David Jones' profits being down, and them blaming it on the effect of the prospective carbon tax on consumer confidence. It made me think, maybe we're just sick of constantly consuming. Why, DJs, do we have to be constantly buying stuff to fatten your pockets, and empty our own? Why have we created a system that solely relies on buying and selling, buying and selling, buying and selling-the constant whirring of the cash register? And ultimately who gains-the seller and the government, profit and taxes. It just seems stupid to me that we build the system based on buying and selling and then when the central cog of the system, the consumer, exercises their right to choose to stop consuming (overpriced) merchandise, the system falls apart.
I guess there is a fundamental flaw in the idea that the system falling apart is a bad thing. The system buy/sell economy falling down is a bad thing for seller and buyers alike, but the buyers are capable of reform and alternative, but the sellers? What else have they got? They have so much more to loose, so they will inflate the bubble to make it last as long as possible keep squeezing more money out of the system.
Hmm...what annoys me more? That we can't really do anything about it....
I guess there is a fundamental flaw in the idea that the system falling apart is a bad thing. The system buy/sell economy falling down is a bad thing for seller and buyers alike, but the buyers are capable of reform and alternative, but the sellers? What else have they got? They have so much more to loose, so they will inflate the bubble to make it last as long as possible keep squeezing more money out of the system.
Hmm...what annoys me more? That we can't really do anything about it....
