Theresa on Nostr: Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed "And the strangest thing about the nightmare street ...
Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
"And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They were only sold there. Where were the workshops, the factories? Where were the farmers, the craftsmen, the miners, the weavers ... ? Where were the hands, the people who made? Out of sight somewhere else, behind walls. All the ... buyers or sellers, they had no relationship to the things but that of possession."
"And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They were only sold there. Where were the workshops, the factories? Where were the farmers, the craftsmen, the miners, the weavers ... ? Where were the hands, the people who made? Out of sight somewhere else, behind walls. All the ... buyers or sellers, they had no relationship to the things but that of possession."