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Jim, that is waaaay too deep for me, so let me make sure that I understand:
In my original posting in this thread i said that capitalism promotes wasteful consumption to keep assorted capitalists in business, and cited automobile transportation as a textbook example of such wastefulness (the textbook being Baran & Sweezy's classic).
You are saying that it ain't so, and capitalism, and auto industry in particular, are not wasteful, right? Did I miss anything or you really want to sell me a ford explorer as the last word in capitalis efficiency.
Btw, check out the latest issue of the Nation for their feature article on leaded gasoline. Very illuminating, indeed - so much so that I am now much more sympathetic toward a view that capitalism is, after all, a conspiracy.
wojtek
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