Date:         Tue, 15 May 2007 23:00:28 -0400
Reply-To:     Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
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From:         Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Another Vanagon world
Comments: To: Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
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simple it has to do with US over consumption.  we on the whole buy stuff
and throw it out long before it has reached the end of its useful life
cycle.  this stuff doesn't just end up at the local salvation army for
local reconsumption.  we are in a global market.  this stuff gets
containerized and shipped worldwide and sold in markets that can extract
the full usefulness of the product. as i travel i see poor people world
wide wearing american clothing, tshirts, pants, etc.  i've asked a few of
them if they knew the meaning of what the tshirt they were wearing meant
and the common answer is no.  more often they like the pattern, color,
image, or simply just needed something cheap to put on their back.

i worked in a machine shop with a man from nigeria and i assisted him in
buying low cost items to ship back to nigera so that his family could sell
them.  used shoes that you might see at the curb as worn out and trashy
were on his list of things that were in high demand in his area of
nigeria.  he said there were lots of vw vans there and that i could rent a
nice house in his area of the country for $500 a year.  also he knew of
the nigerian scammers as they had honed their skill inside the country
first before hitting the internet, but he had no idea how well represented
his country was on the internet by scammers.

jonathan

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Kenneth Lewis wrote:

> Why is he wearing a St.Louis  Rams T-shirt?
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