Susan O’Keeffe: As consumerism creaks, we may have to get used to more queues and cancellations

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Susan O'Keeffe: 'Events at Dublin airport crystallised the new difficulties facing consumers. The complex networks, catering for our every whim and desire, have irrevocably weakened and are breaking.'

Children are routinely taught that they can’t have everything they want. This lesson is commonly heard among tears and screams in supermarket aisles, where those children can, and do, reach many attractive items and then turn on the noisy pester-power button.

Somewhere after the age of 13 or so, this lesson recedes, as children reaching their teenage years look around them and realise their parents were lying: consumerism is alive and well, 24/7, and capable ...

 

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