The secret that corporations don't want you to know is that you don't really NEED that much to be happy

Question

All the things that you are working for, breaking your back for, the bills you are paying the Mortgages you are carrying for some cookie cutter oversized house that looks and feels the same as any other mass produced oversized house that your kids probably wont want anyways when you bite the dust. Not to mention all the ultimately useless gadgets and trinkets that you collect from year to year that eventually find their way to your garage sale, dumpster or eBay. The cars that are pretty much guaranteed to give you troubles within a few years of purchasing them as opposed to being built from around a more sustainable and durable alternative than the ICE which is becoming a reality now but how long will it take to become mainstream. Why are we consumers willing to put up with mediocrity? Why are we willing to have our minds so easily massaged by marketing execs that could not care less about the real big picture? Why don’t we just identify the important things in life.?

Things needed to be happy

1) You need some land that you own yourself.
2) Sustainable Energy for your home (Solar perhaps).
3) Well designed communities with localized closed economies for the most part.

True sustainability is what we should all be working towards. Not paying off debts for things that we don't even really need. So why aren't we doing it? Maybe we should start counter-Marketing Corporate Marketing itself with an open source model?

That's right less is more. As for those living in poverty, the current model enables our Corporations to use their misfortune to their gain in the form of cheap labour as I'm sure you all know. Why should it be this way though. Who is to say that our way is the right way? The 3rd world could become a global leader in the development of truley closed and sustainable communities, they have less infrastructure to re-work. Instead of building more trash ontop of the trash that we already have lets get back to basics and re-think, re-engineer the way we do things, why? Because we can, we've had the technology to do so for a while now. The only thing that has stopped us so far has been greed. What's the point, you can't take any of it with you anyways? And Kids born into great wealth just piss it all away in the end it doesn't make them any happier. We're all missing out on something basic that our most ancient of ancestors had. Silence, peace and a connection to the stars and our place

in the universe. btw if anything this is pro capitalist. Because each of us has the ability to make a democratic vote every time we make a purchase. Instead of putting an extra $10 grand on your Mortgage to get the upgraded kitchen and floor why not use that to have Solar Panels installed? Save yourself a bundle on future heating and electricity bills. Instead of getting some gas guzzler why not save up for a truly alternative energy vehicle? The options are there but we need to build it up to critical mass to shift the direction of industry. What choice will it have when all the consumers have spoken?

Answer 1

Hey, sign me up for your community.

Other answers: Greed, selfishness, laziness, and television.
Oh, and ignorance.
I pre-forgive those in poverty trying to just meet the needs of daily sustenance.

Less IS more.

Answer 2

Absolutely, he's all approximately creating a socialist sewer out of the high-quality nation guy has ever identified. Obama IS THE Manchurian Candidate...historical prophetic publication written 50 years in the past approximately the communist developing a "ultimate deceiver" to seize the populous vote and win the presidency...hummmm

Answer 3

Here's a secret..........I already knew that. You are preaching to the choir here. The only "thing" I like that makes me happy is a good book. I don't need anything else, except my family and friends. I don't wear jewelry or makeup.....not at all interested in fashion, and don't have (and don't want) a big screen tv. I'm poor, by anyone's standards, but I am quite fine where I'm at in life. My family's needs are met, the bills (although juggled) are paid, and that's all I need. Trust me, no execs are massaging MY mind. I'm too much in control of it.

Answer 4

The 3 items that you listed in your follow up have no value to me. I don't need to own land. It's a meaningless concept to own property only to pay tax on it each and every year. And you don't really own it, the government tells you this, but no one own's this planet. No more than me claiming that I own the air over my city.

In the same way that others "needs" are valueless to you, yours appear to be valueless to me. Each of us gets to decide what is important in our lives.

Your land will not pay your medical bills. In fact, you'll have to sell it possible in a major illness. Your land will not give you a hug on a bad day. Your land will not spend time with you if you are lonely and feeling the pressures of the world. Your land will not be your companion through the years.

If you can't pay your taxes, your land isn't yours for very much longer.

Answer 5

Do you know what they call someone who preaches against commercialism after purchasing a computer (aka "useless gadget"), consuming electricity for entertainment, and using the most commercial of all modern entities (the Internet)?

A hypocrite.

Note: Our ancestors had short, painfilled lives haunted by disease, hunger, and a very real chance of being eaten alive if they didn't first die in the recent drought!

Answer 6

Governments are far more organized, conspiratorial, financed, and malevolent than corporations. Shed your anti-capitalist dogma and open your eyes to reality.