Big Smile, No Teeth: Want to walk in plastic blocks?


So sometimes, capitalism, usually a model of efficiency, gets bored, spends too much time on a break, has a fourteenth coffee, and decides people want shoes shaped like giant bricks. — Lego

Whatever you want to say about capitalism, efficiency is one of its hallmarks. 

The invisible hand of the market is supposedly constantly at work, streamlining supply chains and optimising resources so that we can have fresh strawberries in December and a pocket-sized supercomputer that we mostly use to look at pictures of others people’s cats. Capitalism is a system designed to solve problems we didn’t know we had.

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