The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Individualist Framework of Consumerism
You first become aware of a product when you see it in a store. So your ability to see anything else that happened before that moment with that product is sort of severed by consumerism. There's marketing materials at the time, people talking about advertising where they said under no circumstances should people know how clothes are made. And that has only become easier over time with offshoring, moving so much of production to other countries.
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