a place for my stuff

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/business-of-future-home-inventory.html

This was a funny analysis of how inventory has been transferred as a business problem to a people problem. Carlin has the routine on how a home is just a pile of stuff with a lid on it. Well people are essentially over-stuffing their piles because of how products are sold and because they don't keep track of their stuff very well either. Try to imagine all the sunglasses and writing implements that have been lost. Or the amount of food that we consume in half-thought out meals, zoning out in front of the boob tube while some nonsensical show is on interspersed with advertising for products we don't need (I really have to wonder about all the ED commercials... seriously are that many old people unable to get it up or are we just worrying them to death? And how many of them are watching a basketball game anyway.) In a country without budgets and without some accounting for our own inventories, it's no wonder that businesses can 'take advantage' of us.

It would be ok if we all had more or less endless supplies of income to dispose of in this way.. but we don't.