Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional fl…

Wendell Berry
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to. ✨ Wendell Berry (2010). What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, p.158, Counterpoint Press
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to. ✨ Wendell Berry (2010). What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, p.158, Counterpoint Press

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