[Rockhounds] Why are we still living in the Iron Age???!

[Axel Emmermann]

I think we need to go back a little and rethink the use of metals.
Metals are mostly somewhat soluble so we get them inside our bodies. The
Roman Empire declined partially because of it's use of lead.
Aluminum, lead and tin will mess with your mind, too much of this will do
that... The list is quite long.
Anything we use in the handling, consumption, storage, transport of food and
water could in fact be done free of risk if we did it the ancestral way:
ceramics. Just baked and glazed without pigments (like waste uranium ;-)

I think we need to leave the iron age via ceramics, not plastics or another
metal.

Actually, we're no longer in the iron age but in the paper age.
Count the number of people that make something that is needed (food,
hardware) and then count the number of people making no other thing than
money.... We're in the paper age!

No one needs another new breakfast cereal but literally thousands of
advertising people are wasting thousands of trees and tons of ink to make
you eat it. Other people, again thousands of them, are making a living by
coughing up ideas for things that MIGHT be THE "hole in the market". Judging
from the salaries these people get there is a clear reciprocity between the
futility of what they promote and the number of figures in those salaries.

Now that the computer finally makes access to the stock market lightning
fast, the inertia has gone out of the system and the ripples of greed from
the big fish in the pond have become waves. The system immediately responds
to literally everything and crashes. Now, have you seen how much companies
roll over and die lately? Have you seen the dossiers in the law suits
following those bankruptcies? Lernout & Hauspie was a medium sized Belgian
company, microscopic following American standards. When it went to court the
dossier was 1.400.000 pages thick. Stack that in one pile and jump of it to
see my point: paper age. ;-)))))

Paper... Pardon: cheers
Axel