This is not about convenience and disposability or fantasies about how buying can make you beautiful.

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For Wiens, support for products like this encourage the disposability of high-end electronics.

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And so, the disposability of electronic media is actually something that makes book people sad, but book readers happy.

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Mr. PELTON: It is this weird sense of disposability that scares me.

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"There's a backlash afoot over the disposability of consumer products, which Americans have taken for granted for 30 years, " says Mr. Lee.

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Because of their many current advantages -- such as familiarity, resolution, portability, disposability -- paper books will clearly be with us for decades to come.

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Men need the approval, and want to be eligible for marriage and fatherhood, so we all have a vested interest in not questioning this socialization for disposability.

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"Smartphones and tablets are growing at a pace that PCs can't realistically keep up with because of device prices and to some extent disposability, " explained Ryan Reith, program manager, Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers at IDC.

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Disposability is a virtue.

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