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November 25, 2005
Köp inte "Buy Nothing Day"!
Nu på söndag är det åter dags för den AdBustersfinansierade "Buy Nothing Day" där man ska bojkotta konsumtionssamhället.
Förra året skrev jag en artikel om denna nya "helgdag"
Ur artikeln:
It all comes down to a desire to make consumers conform to one particular vision of what is a "sustainable", "ethical" or "socially responsible" market -- with so many rules and restrictions that it is not a particularly free market.
Markets have many characteristics. They serve and express the individual pursuit of happiness. They spread ideas. They change the ways people live and work, and what is valued. They encourage the constant search for improvements. Markets evolve through trial and error, experimentation and feedback. They are not controlled by anybody, and their results are thus unpredictable. It is the market as an open-ended and decentralized discovery process that attracts the greatest opposition today.
The challenge to markets today is about control as a policy for society as a whole. It is the argument that markets are disruptive, and that they serve too many diverse values rather than "the one best way", a society of stability and full predictability. The role of the government, in this view, is not so much to reallocate wealth or socialize companies, as it is to curb, direct, or end the unpredictable nature of the free market.
Men det bör påpekas att företagen faktiskt öppnar sig för denna typ av kritik... fortsättning följer
Posted by Waldemar at November 25, 2005 10:33 AM