Small is still beautiful

I clicked on the “Place Order” button, and a few days later, arrived the used paperback copy of Small is Beautiful, by E.F. Schumacher. Its tag line ” Economics as if People Mattered”.

I thought I had that same yellowish copy somewhere after years of moving around.

Back then, graduate students already drove small cars (Pinto).

Unless you long for a Detroit of yesterday, then visit Cuba, where those old but sturdy automobiles still ride.

Evergreen of Massachusetts had decided to move to China.

New tech, new frontier.

After a great job marketing Hyundai, Mr Akerson “thinks about it”, and helps GM stay competitive in the new Detroit, where people now build cars as if oil mattered.

I clicked on “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell on YouTube. Same song, decades apart. But this time, with deeper understanding.

As of this edit, it’s Buddha’s…