There has also been a lot of recent controversy about the poor working conditions in hard techno factories in the third world. I say allways buy 'fair trade' hard techno..

Hard techno is also having a serious negative effect on small business throughout the western world. small business just cant compete with the huge hard techno savings and are being forced to throw in the towel.

People are saying that hard techno is marketing itself purely toward kids and moulding youth culture to its needs. Kids these days would rather have hard techno than a nice healthy salad - and now the kids have a 2cm bigger waist size on average than they had 25 years ago.

and that is just the tip of the iceberg.