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I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
We’re seeing endings everywhere, in both obvious and non-obvious ways. Let me count the ways.Despite Trump’s non-brand-approved appearance, McDonald’s is failing as a major E. coli outbreak hit their (icky) onions (along with Burger King and Taco Bell too), sending shares down. It’s not just the E. coli but one of the brand’s fry suppliers closed m... See more
do YOU have capitalism poisoning? 🤢
How can we square the consumerist ethic with the capitalist ethic of the business person, according to which profits should not be wasted, and should instead be reinvested in production? It’s simple. As in previous eras, there is today a division of labour between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessl
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Same day shipping. Buy it without seeing it in person first. Free returns. The speed of commerce quickening at the same pace the cost and quality of the goods are decreasing. And the amount of things we keep buying shows no sign of abating. Amazon is on its way to selling half a trillion dollars worth of goods in America this year. And with new bar
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“What the data are showing is that people are just less interested in spending money now. You could say it’s an economic phenomenon, but I think it is broader than that,” said David Sanderson, senior analyst at UBS. “There’s no way to stimulate an economy that people simply don’t seem interested in participating in.”