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#677: HERESIES — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Importance of Consumer Culture in American Life

Maggie Greene: We measure ourselves by how much stuff we have, and how good that stuff is. And then if you want that you need cash. To get that cash you move to the city because that's where the job is that pays more cash. What I'm arguing is that those standards are fucking stupid to begin with. They're not based in anything other than the imagination of what we could achieve on the GI Bill in 1950 at a time when we had far fewer people in the country.

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