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The Online Shopping Boom Is Over w/ Amanda Mull

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Importance of Consumerism

Consumption is inherently like an individualistic system. It asks you to interact with your problems on a sort of like individual case by case basis. And it encourages you to think about this all sort of like a zero sum game. If someone else is solving their problems, there are fewer resources available for you to solve yours. That is just inherent in the entire system. There are non-consumorous ways that we can create abundance for everyone. But like the system that we have right now, the abundance is something that people must compete for.

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