The Lure of Cheap Crap & Will Artificial Intelligence Take Over Your Job?
Something You Should Know
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The History of Cheap Stuff in America
Buddy Wallace is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University Camden and author of the book Crap, a history of cheap stuff in America. He says that what might be crappy to me isn't necessarily crappy to you. We can justify our own frivolous purchases much more easily than we can forgive other people's dubious purchases. And some things, a lot of crappy things are kind of inexplicable. It's really hard to figure out why they were produced, what therefore, why they even need to exist.
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