Evil capitalist pigs
20 September 2009 @ 20:41 in Life
I’ve got nothing in the way of evidence to support
the claim – though this post by Jason Kottke
prompted me actually to post this – but
I’ve long thought that if I read a book or
watched a programme that told me that today’s
smart, connected, profit-orientated business
models meant that, like many indigenous peoples,
all parts of a pig, say, were used after its
slaughter*, I wouldn’t be in the least
surprised.
* In this case by many different companies in many different industries, for many different purposes; less direct than the make-a-water-gourd-from-a-bladder approach, but certainly more effective than the in-the-West-we-kill-a-pig-just-for-a-couple-of-chops-and-throw-the-rest-away-and-isn't-it-a-crying-shame mindset that seems to prevail among a few of the more determined crusties.
* In this case by many different companies in many different industries, for many different purposes; less direct than the make-a-water-gourd-from-a-bladder approach, but certainly more effective than the in-the-West-we-kill-a-pig-just-for-a-couple-of-chops-and-throw-the-rest-away-and-isn't-it-a-crying-shame mindset that seems to prevail among a few of the more determined crusties.
