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If we leave them a lot of material goods, all they're going to do is fight, and they're going to hate each other.
We were seeing somebody who's keeping sales records for years; somebody who had an entire ecosystem of retail that comes in from Uganda to pick up inventory; someone who's got handcarts bringing the goods in, or the mobile money agent who comes to collect cash at the end of the evening.
That's around 20,000 US dollars invested in trade goods and services every year.
But then along came the industrial revolution, and then goods became the predominant economic offering, where we used commodities as a raw material to be able to make or manufacture goods.
Well, what then happened over the last 50 or 60 years, is that goods have become commoditized.
Long-distance telephone service sold on price, price, price; fast-food restaurants with all their value pricing; and even the Internet is commoditizing not just goods, but services as well.
Time to go beyond the goods and the services, and use, in that same heuristic, what happens when you customize a service?
And in fact, by the time that World War II started, American corporations were actually trying to boycott Nazi goods.
Under exclusive contracts with Big Ag and big box stores, farmers are not offered a fair price for their goods.
On the other hand, farmers who sell their goods at a farmers market take home closer to 90 cents of every dollar.
Since the rise of the smartphone revolution, direct-to-consumer goods have stagnated.
But the hero of the story, the enabling state, supported by working class and middle class people, will contest that disorder, will fight those powerful forces by redistributing wealth, and through spending public money on public goods will generate income and jobs, restoring harmony to the land.
There’s a mismatch between how many goods people want to buy, how many products and services producers can offer, and the price of the goods and services sold, which prompts an economic decline.
Inflation happens when goods and services get more expensive.
For example, we use a lot of carbon-fiber composites in sporting goods.
I was told by some that it could be damaged goods after traveling across the ocean and being exposed to the elements, that it could become degraded and potentially ruin a batch of recycling.
You know in 1950 the typical ship carried 5,000 to 10,000 tons worth of goods.
But instead of asking for material goods, Diogenes only asked Alexander to get out of his sunshine.
Europeans brought brandy and gin to Africa and traded it for enslaved people, land, and goods like palm oil and rubber.
The most important discovery we made in our focus on public action was to appreciate that the hard choices are not between good and evil, but between competing goods.
The Mediterranean cultures at the heart of the Roman Empire had large warships that controlled the sea, and cargo ships that transported goods along the waterways.
When not at war, the vessels were used to transport goods and make trade journeys.
But the Vikings also scratched runes into household goods, jewellery, weapons, and even shoes.
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods.
I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods.
It's not the material goods we want; it's the rewards we want.
It's a new way of looking at luxury goods.
Within a week, I was creating my first of many aliases, and in the 10 years since, I've investigated fake car parts, alloy wheels, fake pet grooming tools, fake bicycle parts, and, of course, the counterfeiter's favorite, fake luxury leather goods, clothing and shoes.
And so I resolved to travel around the world examining this global criminal underworld by talking to policemen, by talking to victims, by talking to consumers of illicit goods and services.
And what I noticed at the beginning of my research that the Balkans had turned into a vast transit zone for illicit goods and services coming from all over the world.
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