Regarding the way things work......
Once upon a time there was a SAINTED but unsung hero who invented the shower. Boy, it didn't take long for that one to catch on! Soon, everybody was taking a shower, and our world was much improved. Then, another guy came along who modified the shower head to make the spray adjustable......... Hmmmmmm....that really was an improvement and everybody got the new shower head.
Along comes another guy who gets the idea to sex the whole thing up by inventing a pulsing shower head. Then, this whole thing evolved into the hot tub by putting the pulsing shower heads under water into an enlarged bath tub. Wow, that was popular too...and muy sexy. Then the conservationists got on board and the "water-saver" nozzles were invented, and that was better yet.
Well, THAT is how capitalism works....... and that is what has made America such a hugely productive economic engine. THEN...
With wage costs spiraling upward....with a big push by Unions... and competition from abroad...many of those people who were busy "making" shower heads at home decided that they could bring their prices down and be more competitive by shipping those manufacturing jobs overseas. Hmmmmmmm.......
So now, with hugely expanding population, the demand for shower heads and hot tubs has grown exponentially.
Ergo.......We have become predominately a consumer economy rather than a production economy as in days of yore.
So - there you have it. The world as we know it.
That is my story... And I am sticking to it!
Consumerism by N.J.R., shared and printed with permission by Abby Freeborn who licenses it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. For permission to use please contact randmxcentric@gmail.com.
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