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dkf

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11. We aren't allowed to do our own electrical work nowadays much less build our own house.

Reply to mbperrin (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 09:58 PM

Mar 2012

This idea would put us all in shacks I imagine.

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Xpost from E&E: To what degree can the unfolding planetary catastrophe be blamed on interest? [View all] GliderGuider Mar 2012 OP

How else would you get the funds to buy a house or car? dkf Mar 2012 #1

I agree. How do we keep from killing the planet in the process? GliderGuider Mar 2012 #3

Why do we need a business that needs a billion dollar expansion? mbperrin Mar 2012 #9

WE don't. THEY do. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #13

Yep. My eyes were opened when I worked in management for banks for 10 years from 1968-1978. mbperrin Mar 2012 #16

If you want to maintain large, technologically advanced countries like the US NickB79 Mar 2012 #17

Individuals do all the work in the world. mbperrin Mar 2012 #20

For most of history, people built their own houses and barns. mbperrin Mar 2012 #8

We aren't allowed to do our own electrical work nowadays much less build our own house. dkf Mar 2012 #11

People build houses, not space aliens. mbperrin Mar 2012 #14

Amish building practices aren't really comparable NickB79 Mar 2012 #18

Why would anyone ever use such crap as vinyl siding? Ugly, drafty, poison. mbperrin Mar 2012 #19

I have long thought this to be the case. RevStPatrick Mar 2012 #2

Those of us who had parents who survived the Depression Warpy Mar 2012 #6

I disagree with your thesis Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #4

How does extending your view back to the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries change the picture? GliderGuider Mar 2012 #5

Well, yes, my perspective does Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #7

Start considering "growth" meaning simply bigger, as a cancer. mbperrin Mar 2012 #10

Yes, exactly. Except that this time we're not hollowing out the empire, but the planet. GliderGuider Mar 2012 #12

Yes, technology has allowed the damage to be greatly multiplied. mbperrin Mar 2012 #15

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