{"id":185,"date":"2009-05-18T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2009-05-18T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:22:04","slug":"discussing-our-declining-throwaway-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"Discussing Our Declining &#8216;Throwaway&#8217; Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this 18-minute audio exchange between Socio-Economics, Inc. principals, Jack Lessinger and Ranger Kidwell-Ross, they discuss the movement toward what might be called a &#8216;responsible and rechargeable&#8217; society, and away from our current &#8216;throwaway&#8217; mindset. The exchange began based on the companion article by Ranger entitled &#8220;Throwaway Batteries: Buying What We&#8217;re Sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latter portion of the audio discusses how the fast food industry is based on much the same concept of a habitual way of acting based on a perceived lower cost and time-savings. The two socio-economists elaborate on the much higher actual costs &#8216;We the People&#8217; have bought into when we both buy alkaline batteries and frequent fast food restaurants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"214\" height=\"40\" data=\"http:\/\/static.odeo.com\/flash\/player_audio_embed_v2.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"odeo_audio\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"jStr=['id': 24577283]\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.odeo.com\/flash\/player_audio_embed_v2.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/?page_id=193\">this link<\/a> to read a related article by SocioEconomics Inc. President Ranger Kidwell Ross, titled &#8220;Throwaway Batteries: Buying What We\u2019re Sold&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 18-minute audio exchange between Socio-Economics, Inc. principals, Jack Lessinger and Ranger Kidwell-Ross, they discuss the movement toward what might be called a &#8216;responsible and rechargeable&#8217; society, and away from our current &#8216;throwaway&#8217; mindset. The exchange began based on the companion article by Ranger entitled &#8220;Throwaway Batteries: Buying What We&#8217;re Sold.&#8221; The latter portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socio-economics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}