• @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    14223 days ago

    There’s a lot more to unpack here then it being a car ad.

    “old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in” is a completely foreign concept in modern society.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      6323 days ago

      On the part of the company as well.

      If your customer’s kids go to college, they’ll grow up to earn more money that they can spend on pointless expensive cars in the future.

      But we need to chop down that tree for firewood. Not because they’re cold, but because they like a nice pile of firewood.

    • @HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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      523 days ago

      That’s a proverb I heard many times from Russian acquaintances.

      Why do you hate freedom?

      • Omega
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        1423 days ago

        Ultra-individualism has been a disaster for mankind