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How the Buy Nothing Movement Imploded

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Disappointment of Binothings

The idea of sprouting has a beautiful idea of community, but it means that you're going to be with people of your exact same demographic because of real estate prices. And what happened in this community is that members totally kind of revolted and were like, this is horrible. We're worried about redlining. Some of the regional admins started jumping into the conversation and saying, you know, this is what binothings is all about. You have to sprout ... tempers got heated and it all kind of blew up.

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