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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 03/07/06 15:00
Quagmire aka DinZ wrote:
> "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:475j26Fdmjn5U1@individual.net...
>> Quagmire aka DinZ wrote:
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>> I also think that when corporations see how everybody knows now what
>> is done anyway and how and why ...then they'll say "we might as well
>> carry on -Who's gonna stop us? What can they do about it? So what?
>> They mightn't like it, but they go along with it because we bring
>> wealth."
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> Well Mc donalds shit its pants and started to change some things
> around, walkers crisp has made a go of it and Britvic may have to
> change its policy. Some change is better than no change at all. I
> belive that there has to come a point when the morbid masses wake up
> and realize what damage is caused by corporations and that they as
> consumers have a choice.
That still won't make them pay thirty quid for a weekly fruit basket or 2
grand for an average telly or higher prices on anything just on
"humanitarian grounds".
I saw Syriana and was hit by it and it made me think and I detest what is
going on... but I still drove home.
The Fair Trade brand does seem to be making some inroads in the right way
though, granted. I hope that catches on.
<cynic mode on>
....of course when it does begin to affect "the big boys", they too will
begin their own version... and people will buy those because they'll be
cheaper & more recogniseable than the "Fair Trade" logo ones, putting the
other out of business.. bringing us back where we started.
<cynic mode off>
> Going from 1 billion people on this planet to over 6 billion in over a
> hundred years is gonna fuck loads of things up. Only Ra's al ghul can
> save us ;-)
>
I wasn't aware of that big leap. Who said tha'? From when to when?
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