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Sustainability: The Tyranny of the 21st Century

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Are We Meeting People's Basic Needs?

Within the framework of capitalism, the tremendous growth in the productivity of labor enforces the ever-in-large production of luxuries. He says that what this process of advanced capitalism does is it takes luxuries and makes people think that they need them. "It's almost like these luxuries become vital needs," he writes.

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