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Re: Consume less, produce more

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Post by bigdict » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

tuatoru wrote: post #7

1auralynn wrote: post #4

I don't think the antidote to consumption is necessarily production. Not everyone has to be making things all the time. And I think we're moving past the "everyone producing and selling their creations on Etsy" model, culturally. I think it's OK to do nothing and produce nothing, and just spend time thinking, talking, sleeping, whatever.

> I don't think the antidote to consumption is necessarily production. I agree. It's play. Dance more, tell stories more, jump the cracks in the sidewalk more, hang out with people you like more. Those hippies were on to something back in the 1960s.

Yeah, I think it's about not taking things seriously whenever possible.

Re: Consume less, produce more

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Post by briefcomment » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

I think that's just an opinion. I was recently of the same opinion until I started wondering if, for some people, output is a result of inputs. More specifically, output that you are proud of (as opposed to, for example, a drawing that I could hash out right now that I would consider insignificant soon thereafter) requires a critical mass of some types of inputs.

Re: Consume less, produce more

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Post by known » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 5:04 AM UTC

Consume less, Sell more

Re: Consume less, produce more

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Post by xallace » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 12:45 PM UTC

1auralynn wrote: post #4

I don't think the antidote to consumption is necessarily production. Not everyone has to be making things all the time. And I think we're moving past the "everyone producing and selling their creations on Etsy" model, culturally. I think it's OK to do nothing and produce nothing, and just spend time thinking, talking, sleeping, whatever.

dito, don't we have enough producers of cloths, they are even customizable. and not only cloths, do we need 10+ car manufacturers? millions brands of beverages, beers, etc.