[JJ]

heres a good video
http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... _19641.cfm

[janeword]

Thanks. That was a great video. Only three miunutes, but with valuable ideas. I especially liked his thought that the opposite of consumption is generosity.

[mos6507]

It takes real skill to frame this stuff in a way that resonates. You know, something a little more nuanced than the typical partisan/anti-establishment ranting.

[hardtootell-2]

I like the line:

"We mortgaged our future and called it freedom"

[Maddog78]

the value of nothing? $14 apparently.
He hasn't forgotten how to use that price gun.

[Pretorian]

The opposite of consumption is generosity? Really? So if Bill Gates and Warren Buffet will feed all those poor, poor people who live on $1 a day for 100 days or whatever their fortunes will last, world will be a better place? Those fine forests in this video will have a chance then, right?

[Maddog78]

I'm also pretty sure a forestry company would use that price gun to put a value of more than $0 on that forest and if that refinery is the one Valero wants to shut down in DE I don't think it's worth $600+ million.

[HeckuvaJob]

FYI - 90min lecture by Patel on The Value of Nothing available here on the LSE website. -worth a listen.

Date: Tuesday 1 December2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Raj Patel

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic, the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt. It's now clear that the market doesn't only get it wrong about sub-prime mortgages; it gets it wrong about everything. We need to ask again one of the most fundamental questions a society ever addresses: why do things cost what they do?