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\nAnd here we go again\u2026<\/p>\n
It dazzles me how sometimes publicity sells us anything. This week, I saw a new bank\u2019s publicity, of course<\/em>, where one of its executives was playing ping-pong against an oriental worker, inside an industrial fabric with all the other oriental workers cheering up around them\u2026 the executive \u2013 the occidental guy \u2013 wins the match and the judge decides that all the next set of LCD TV Screens fabricated there where going to be sent to the country where the bank of the other guy was. In the next scene, a member of the bank buys a LCD TV Screen with a discount bonus from his bank and says HOW DO THESE GUYS MAKE IT\u2026?<\/em> And he smiles\u2026 happy with his purchase, feeling well<\/em>.<\/p>\n I am not saying that we do not buy a cool TV, or whatever we need, but we do have<\/strong> to know where the stuff we buy comes from, in order to ALWAYS buy the products that last the most, that have spare parts, those which are multifunctional, which can be recycled, etc. The discounts, and the cheap prices we pay are at the expense of dehumanizing and systematized jobs of the countries with high industrial productivity and high rates of demographic growth, where cheap workforce is available, and the emotional distress of these people little matters in the other side of the globe.<\/p>\n And I am not saying you shouldn\u00b4t buy sneakers, but if you do, then use them until the wear off from the inside out. If you think I am being a little bit extreme or pessimist, give yourself a couple of minutes to watch \u201cManufactured Landscapes\u201d which reveals the changes in landscapes<\/a> due to industrial labor and manufacture. It is a documentary about the photographer Edward Burtynsky<\/a>, who spent 10 years taking pictures of several natural resources extraction sites and their manufacture fabrics. It is a seldom spoken documentary, but its images are profound, and disturbing in a very subtle way.<\/p>\n