Couch pillows have designers. They have manufacturers, who require fabrics, dyes, manufacturing equipment, premises, power sources. Those manufacturers have employees who spend their money in the local community. The couch pillows have to be shipped by air, sea and land, loaded and unloaded, inspected by trading standards officers, slit open by detectives searching for smuggled drugs. The pillows are sold in shops, which employ shelf stackers, salespeople and managers, or online where programmers, IT experts, warehouse personnel ship the material through a galaxy of freight agents and delivery services. And throughout this money changes hand, involving cashiers, bankers, accountants, while teams of advertising executives control creative directors promoting the cushions to the general public via newspapers, cinema advertising, billboards, TV, online ads.
And you want to put a stop to this. If you thought the global banking crisis of 2008 was bad then just watch what happens if you kick couch pillows into touch! The End of Civilisation as we know it.
