Amanda Ball is a staff writer at the Atlantic where she writes the Material World column. She recently wrote about how e-commerce websites are starting to end the policy of free returns. Paris Marks: I think we're sort of like starting to butt up against this sort of extreme of what it is that people can be made to do as far as buying things online. Do we want to keep on that path where, you know, we just have companies expecting us to buy more?
Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the history of consumerism and where ecommerce goes in the next few years as interest rates rise and its market share stalls.
Amanda Mull is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she writes the Material World column. She’s also a shop steward at The Atlantic Union. Follow Amanda on Twitter at @amandamull.
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