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Making paper is actually the sign of an advanced and highly developed society, paper of any kind. Because of the ubiquity of paper in our Western societies, we forget how that the manufacture of paper requires a huge investment in capital resources. Once you reach a certain level of industrialization, however (as the West has) the paper ends up being something of a by-product and waste.

It is a comment on our technological achievements and relative affluence that we use paper for the dirtiest of chores. In some parts of the world, like Europe, they use water and a bidet to refresh their posterior after a visit to the loo. Around here, water is a luxury so we use paper.