The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. storyofstuff.org
Video Rating: 4 / 5
DaveC86
Август 30th, 2011 в 22:00
@imslicc the ‘invisible hand’ is not magic. The reason markets work best left to themselves is because knowledge is fragmented across all of society, the millions of people all have far superior knowledge of their own situation/micro economies that far away central planners never could… it’s not enough to say «the free market will take care of it» WE are the market! individuals acting and cooperating!
cccircaaa
Август 30th, 2011 в 22:51
If you like this video, join ‘The Zeitgeist Movement’, help humanity and Mother Earth!
imslicc
Август 30th, 2011 в 23:15
@DaveC86 you advocate the «Free Market». don’t you think the invisible hand’s gonna deal with this video. why bother?
Miggz989
Август 30th, 2011 в 23:16
I know the point of this video is to excite and motivate others into action or speech, however I am disgusted with the gross over exaggeration presented with some parts of this video. Our pillows are stuffed with neurotoxins? That is akin to saying grapes increase cancer risk; the amount is too little to affect our bodies. If human breast milk contains the most «neurotoxins» in our food, then it is clear to me neurotoxins are not the problem. «Do the fucking research.»
raccoongals
Август 30th, 2011 в 23:37
funny how all the haters are just trying to find fault with this video because it isn’t «convenient» for them and it doesn’t match how they roll. I think she did a great job, whether she really understood everything she was saying or that she was merely reciting what she’s memorised.
DaveC86
Август 30th, 2011 в 23:56
@abcunix
you miss the point entirely, you say win votes! but who do you vote for? the government! corporations get their power from government. There are two means of acquiring wealth in this world, the first is voluntary trade/co-operation, also known as the productive means, the second is coercion/theft, otherwise known as the political means. We need to create a society where voluntary contracts/cooperation is the norm, and where no one is able to use force on ANYONE.
PenniesAllAround
Август 31st, 2011 в 00:01
@DaveC86 And isn’t it upsetting that this is what my college environmental science professor is having us watch for class!
I’m disgusted.
TheScienceiscool
Август 31st, 2011 в 00:13
@DaveC86 well said!
abcunix
Август 31st, 2011 в 00:28
@DaveC86 Whatever you think about this argument people with money are not powerless, especially when money can buy ads which win votes…
OVER18MANWOMAN
Август 31st, 2011 в 00:36
Worldwide Buy Nothing Day this 28th August.
lebbotube
Август 31st, 2011 в 01:24
Well said DaveC86. If theses morons that cliked the «like» bottom have the slightest idea that «government is the root of all evils» they may have a different opinion. Because their argument is baseless at best, they will always use the «F» word in their answer. Go fig.
music1stuntskicker10
Август 31st, 2011 в 02:06
This is old theory
missmack2394
Август 31st, 2011 в 02:10
a true eye-opener to how much we waste as consumers.
aviatorpilot21
Август 31st, 2011 в 02:50
Of course we use 25%. We are the most productive country with goods and food for the world. We don’t keep the 25% of the resources we consume. You aren’t going to see countries in Africa consuming and producing at the rate we do, due to their social and governmental and private sector structures. It’s just that all this use is done by the countries that can produce the most efficient and cost effective way possible so we all benefit. Her thinking is so linear and close minded it’s sick.
SirDMName
Август 31st, 2011 в 03:49
So, all of this can be stopped by not shopping ?
aviatorpilot21
Август 31st, 2011 в 03:52
Of course, Look at how the government helps banks and companies like GE recently.
aviatorpilot21
Август 31st, 2011 в 04:22
First of All, 50% of our tax money doesn NOT go to the military. Second, The government is by the people for the people, and it is NOT meant to look out for us and take care of us. It has very limited constitutional requirements, e.g. Protect our nation and our liberties. The government is limited by the Constitution on what it can’t do to us, by design as founded. Damn right the corporation (private sector) is bigger than the government. It is what is meant to grow in our country.
aviatorpilot21
Август 31st, 2011 в 05:21
This is not to say we are above the law, but government is meant to protect our liberties and is limited to what it can do, this is to allow a flourish private sector (illustrated by the cliched big evil corporations.) To bad I never learned that in school…..I was indoctrinated to the left as usual but luckily my instincts and common sense and post-school education helped me come back to reality.
DaveC86
Август 31st, 2011 в 06:16
This video demonstrates the total failure of state education. It is fallacy after fallacy from beginning to end, there’s no understanding of even the most basic economic principles.. this is truly a cartoon portrayal of the real world, it’s sad to see so many likes… I don’t even know where to begin with this… for one thing, the government should be the number 1 target of every Earth loving human being.. not ‘corporations’, absent government granted powers, corporations are in fact powerless.
mygoodshitzzz
Август 31st, 2011 в 06:33
@StatelessEuphoria ……..and as we can see its deff working….. lol
StatelessEuphoria
Август 31st, 2011 в 06:37
@mygoodshitzzz
Howtheworldworks comprehensively refuted the main arguments made in this video. You do the research.
StatelessEuphoria
Август 31st, 2011 в 07:29
@SuffocateJav90
economic illiteracy NOW!!
Anarchsis
Август 31st, 2011 в 07:37
@logstrain You think it’s only the Americans, Australians are even more stupid because they believe the government is their mother and will look after them. Capitalism isn’t fucked, Corporate monopolism is fucked, open the markets, rid the economy of the minimum wage, and people will appreciate their ‘stuff’.
ArturoStojanoff
Август 31st, 2011 в 07:38
Actually it wasn’t AFTER world war two it was USING world war two. They used it to get out of the crisis. You reactivate economy with the armaments industry and get rid of unemployment by killing a whole bunch of the unemployed people.
lifeInAFallenWorld22
Август 31st, 2011 в 08:00
NOTE TO ALL HUMAN BEINGS – BE WISE WITH WHAT YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY ON!!!!!!