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Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Consequences of Capitalism

Capitalism works well because we need to buy new things regularly. America really invented, which is a precursor in a requirement for planned obsolescence: disposability. We're at this peculiar moment in history where we require massive amounts of disposable items and we can't produce them fast enough to meet the pandemic need. I have a question for you about imagination. Are we even capable of a culture to even imagine a different world? Well, with our choice of material culture, consumer culture, there are a whole series of different decisions that have actually already been made.

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