Comments on: Back to the Future http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2008/06/01/back-to-the-future/ Practical methods for successful software management. Thu, 06 May 2010 02:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: gazdatronik http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/2008/06/01/back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2415 gazdatronik Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:11:16 +0000 http://www.yuwantitwhen.com/blog/?p=54#comment-2415 Of course automakers would not readily invest in an electric car. They have to think of their business, their workers, their stockholders, and themselves. I don't like overconsumption, and I never have, but the people in charge don't really think of the future, just as your basic laborer doesn't invest any of his paycheck into a retirement fund. He's too busy buying things like gas and hot pockets and cheap domestic beer, which eats up his wages, leaving nothing for the future. There is no real happy medium. People always go to one extreme or the other, as its easier for them to keep track of their lives that way. I wish it wasn't so. I really do. I'm doing my part not to destroy the environment. I work, drive an old car I can fix myself that gets 28 mpg, buy used consumer goods that I can fix whenever possible, and above all never really consider anything truly "disposable." The thing is, I have the skills to live this way, while most others are impotent in these fields. This is the problem, has always been the problem, and will always be the problem until people appreciate knowlege and science. In order to thrive, one must be a thoughtfully scientific badass. But the consumer marketplace wants cowards, and thats what they got. Of course automakers would not readily invest in an electric car. They have to think of their business, their workers, their stockholders, and themselves. I don’t like overconsumption, and I never have, but the people in charge don’t really think of the future, just as your basic laborer doesn’t invest any of his paycheck into a retirement fund. He’s too busy buying things like gas and hot pockets and cheap domestic beer, which eats up his wages, leaving nothing for the future.

There is no real happy medium. People always go to one extreme or the other, as its easier for them to keep track of their lives that way.

I wish it wasn’t so. I really do.

I’m doing my part not to destroy the environment.

I work, drive an old car I can fix myself that gets 28 mpg, buy used consumer goods that I can fix whenever possible, and above all never really consider anything truly “disposable.”

The thing is, I have the skills to live this way, while most others are impotent in these fields. This is the problem, has always been the problem, and will always be the problem until people appreciate knowlege and science.

In order to thrive, one must be a thoughtfully scientific badass.

But the consumer marketplace wants cowards, and thats what they got.

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