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  1. 10-01-2011, 02:51 AM #51
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    Quote Originally Posted by W1GUH View Post
    Yeah, but, in a grudging way he was miles and miles ahead of our captians of industry today. He actually MADE things, things that enhanced people's lives, and things that employed people making them. Also things that were exported and helped the balance of payments. Same for Mr. Ford, Harvey Firestone, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller and all them other so-called robber barons.
    Well, you are right. Edison and others like him had a knack for taking an idea and making it into something that people want and capitalizing on it. This of course did wind up providing a lot of jobs and opportunities and helped this country to grow in leaps and bounds. In order to provide added skill for further innovation a whole generation of young people were spurred into the technologies, the sciences, engineering, finance, management, and other important fields and opened new avenues of interest and spawned new technologies. It also helped to grow a strong and robust middle class , particularly during the post war years.

    Then came Ronnie...
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    Edison and others like him had a knack for taking an idea and making it into something that people want and capitalizing on it. Then came Ronnie (Popeil)... and a generation of hucksters using marketing psychology to convince people they want, just GOTTA HAVE some piece of junk they really don't need. This of course did wind up providing a lot of jobs and opportunities and helped this country to grow in leaps and bounds, "this country" being China.

    There, that looks better.
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    The guy who was responsible for the irresponsible consumerism that is the hallmark of today was Edward Bernays. May he rot in hell for all time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kb2vxa View Post
    Edison and others like him had a knack for taking an idea and making it into something that people want and capitalizing on it. Then came Ronnie (Popeil)... and a generation of hucksters using marketing psychology to convince people they want, just GOTTA HAVE some piece of junk they really don't need. This of course did wind up providing a lot of jobs and opportunities and helped this country to grow in leaps and bounds, "this country" being China.

    There, that looks better.
    If you really think about it most of the stuff that most of us own we don't need. All we really "need" in life is food, air, water, and, in harsher climates, shelter. Beyond that we really don't need anything else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    All we really "need" in life is food, air, water, and, in harsher climates, shelter. Beyond that we really don't need anything else.
    Almost nothing else. We need sex too.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Almost nothing else. We need sex too.
    No surprise I over looked that. Well, yes, to keep the species thriving we need sex. But that is a "built-in" human mechanism. I was only considering the external elements.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    No surprise I over looked that.
    Alas, I understand that all too well.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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