Embracing Disposability

Americans who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s – which lasted into the 1940s – learned through hard necessity about the value of frugality. About not wasting money on things they didn’t need. Especially things that caused them to waste more money.

What is styled “keyless” ignition (and door unlocking) is a modern-times example of this. One of many, unfortunately.

Until circa the late 1990s, you unlocked the door of a car by inserting a key into a slot and turning the lock open by ...