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In such a society marginal value has become constantly self-transcendent. It forces the few largest consumers to compete for the power to deplete the earth, to fill their own swelling bellies, to discipline smaller consumers, and to deactivate those who still find satisfaction in making do with what they have.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Money is the minimal information that captures the social truth of the value of time and energy.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
escalating expectations in the realms of consumption, technology, and education.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Luxury status is usually caused by rarity in nature and/or the expense of bringing these products to market.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Hours reductions serve multiple purposes.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Innovations such as fabbers radically alter the cost calculus.
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
They put peace, meaningful work, and basic values above affluence.
Juliet Schor • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)
Instead of creating wealth, these jobs mostly just shift it around.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
Merely internalizing the externality of pollution, or