In the case of bric-a-brac, you'll never use it.

In the case of "antiques" or "collectibles", if it's truly

useless, except as an object of barter or trade...

then it should be bartered or traded early and often.

When you buy toys for your self and your children and then accuse

them of not appreciating how hard you worked to provide them

with something that could easily have been replaced with a blank

piece of paper and a crayon, then you fool yourself and

your children become addicted to your foolishness.


When you work in a factory, cranking out stuff you really have no

use for, in order to earn enough money to go out and buy stuff

that you have a use for that was cranked out by other people in another factory

somewhere... Think about it. Economists and other liars will tell

you that buying that crap you and those other folks manufacture helps keep

both of you in a job,

but,

if everyone who worked in a factory thought about all the other

people who worked in factories,

and the people who make money off what you and they make and buy

but don't really get the benefit of, either way,

then maybe if enough people who know about what it's

like in factories refused to buy that crap until the

conditions improved and the money-grubbers were forced

to spend a little time in their own grubby hellholes,

maybe less crap would be manufactured, fewer people would

be stuck cranking it out and more of the junk that was previously

made over the last hundred years would be used in place of

new junk.


This is incoherent, I realize. I am faced with working in a

factory again and I cannot even begin to imagine what people

who work there are willing to put up with so that they can

afford to go get the stuff out of lay-a-way at Walmart that

they hope to give their chilluns for Christmas.