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BlancheSplanchnik

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4. as ever, the Rude is exactly right.

Reply to meegbear (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 07:50 AM

Sep 2014

It is very hard to get around the fact that we billions upon billions upon billions of people depend on the massive corporate structures which sustain our day to day life.

To think that life with billions upon billions of people--not too far from 10 billion of us humans now--would function in any way we can even imagine, without the goods and delivery systems structure they provide is....fantasy land.

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