Counting Our Blessings In Our Trash
2 May 2006
Editor, The Christian Science Monitor
Dear Editor:
I realize that it's de rigueur among the literary classes to bewail the gizmos and gadgets that so prominently facilitate the convenience of modern life. But reading Giles Slade's warning that we are throwing away too many cell-phones and iPods ("Technology made to be broken," May 2) puts a smile on my face and makes me thankful - thankful to live in an economy so staggeringly productive that we enjoy enough leisure and wealth actually to worry about the contents of landfills.
Such concerns are a blessing.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Christian Science Monitor
Dear Editor:
I realize that it's de rigueur among the literary classes to bewail the gizmos and gadgets that so prominently facilitate the convenience of modern life. But reading Giles Slade's warning that we are throwing away too many cell-phones and iPods ("Technology made to be broken," May 2) puts a smile on my face and makes me thankful - thankful to live in an economy so staggeringly productive that we enjoy enough leisure and wealth actually to worry about the contents of landfills.
Such concerns are a blessing.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Sunday February 18, 2007 at 3:21pm
Have you ever heard about the Public Choice Theory? *yawn*