Planned Ruination: Thatcher's Britain

Abstract

Numerous thinkers and writers have long criticized the whole basis of the society of consumption, the society of "always more," the society which places the whole emphasis of human life on having rather than on being. Such criticisms indeed are an explicit element in most of the world's great religions and thus long antedate the modern "Age of Affluence," which rests obscenely on the (planned) deprivation and misery of three quarters of humankind.

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