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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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![]() This is an interesting idea; I think the general idea was floating around in the 1970's, but I can't find a reference.
This is an idea whose time has come; it goes beyond recycling.
If it makes you feel any better, North Americans have always produced trash. According to archaeological studies of a clan of Native Americans who lived around 6,500 BC, each person produced an average of 5.3 pounds of waste per day during the hunting season.
Note: The first municipal dump was established in Athens in around 500 B.C.
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