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It’s a fascinating evolution of status... and I’m here for it... for as long as these luxurious buys are additive to our environment — not extractive. Let anyone feel like a hero for as long as it’s to the collective’s benefit.
Consumption and sustainability are paradoxical — we can’t buy our way out of this — but some rebranding won’t hurt. Positio... See more
Consumption and sustainability are paradoxical — we can’t buy our way out of this — but some rebranding won’t hurt. Positio... See more
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
Since the 1970s, productivity has grown at 3.5 times the rate of pay for American workers. Precarious employment has risen by 9 per cent since the late 1980s, and we have seen extraordinarily high levels of burnout in the workforce. In short, we are underpaid, insecure, and burned out. And yet the achievement society – with its injunction to be mor
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archive.phThe irony is that our pursuit of convenience eventually creates a cascade of “unanticipated ruptures” that collectively erode our daily experience. “As a society, we have decided that we want more for less: more convenience, more purchases, more technology, but none of it at prices that render it out of reach. For years, we allowed immediate gratif
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