Originally Posted by
009jim
What about where you work? Does anyone have a simple workplace? That would be a place where you manufacture something or provide a service without creating great amounts of waste or having unnecessary facilities provided only for aesthetics or other pointless reasons. I reckon a simple workplace would be people sewing clothes in a back room somewhere, or repairing bicycles. A non-simple workplace would be people in fine suits selling mobile phones from a lavishly appointed store in a copiously air-conditioned shopping boulevard.
I work at a small community newspaper. Our computers are a few years old but the desks and counter areas, except at the building entrance, are almost all between 20 and 40 years old. When we replace items, especially cameras and electronic items, they are either worn out or have become obsolete.