01-17-2011, 01:03 AM
I read a science fiction story from the '60's about a future world where everyone literally has more stuff than anyone could want. Rich people were ble to afford the taxes to have their ownership waived so they could live simpler lives but the poorest people had to live in huge houses and be burdened with tons of stuff.
The hero of the story was very very poor and came up with the idea of putting some of those new clothes on his team of robots and having them march up and down the staircases to wear out both the clothes and the robots. Soon he had invnted numerous ways to destroy all the stuff and became very wealthy so he could live in a little house.
Henry David Thoreau once said that all men push all their belongings around in a wheelbarrow and it was incumbant on each of us to keep the load as light as possible.
The hero of the story was very very poor and came up with the idea of putting some of those new clothes on his team of robots and having them march up and down the staircases to wear out both the clothes and the robots. Soon he had invnted numerous ways to destroy all the stuff and became very wealthy so he could live in a little house.
Henry David Thoreau once said that all men push all their belongings around in a wheelbarrow and it was incumbant on each of us to keep the load as light as possible.