Video: The High Price of Materialism
Center for a New American Dream, with Tim Kasser, put together a sharp video illustrating the high price of materialism, and the effects of materialism. Read More …
Center for a New American Dream, with Tim Kasser, put together a sharp video illustrating the high price of materialism, and the effects of materialism. Read More …
Anti-consumption is often misunderstood, often taken by some to mean some sort of life trapped in a cabin in some remote mountain, guarded by leagues of pines, concealing your fate to a remote corner of the world. In fact there Read More …
Consumed – How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole, Benjamin R. Barber, W.W. Norton, 2007, 406 pg Benjamin Barber’s sortie against consumerism is sure to reverberate from the glass tower offices of big box USA to the Read More …
I had this interesting conversation with a colleague at work. My colleague was telling me adrenaline pumping tales about how he became a vegetarian. But he had an odd caveat, he still ate eggs. He was careful to note that Read More …
I think it’s time to talk about the experience vs. things dichotomy. If you’re unfamiliar with what I’m talking about, here’s the cliff notes: Forgot guns vs butter from the econ classroom, this is about vacations versus iPads. It’s about Read More …
This article recently published on the site Quartz talks about how Christmas for adults is more like a chore. Instead of fulfilling its rich normative goals about togetherness and solidarity with the family it is more about receiving gifts. Flanagian notes aptly Read More …
Instead of going out in the wanton craziness of Black Friday, enjoy it from the comfort of your screen.
Black Friday and the craziness. Read More …
A company called Drop has made a revolutionary scale, a kitchen scale that is wireless, it connects to an iDevice (iPad mini, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, iPad 3rd generation, iPad 4th generation, iPad Air and iPad Air 2) through Read More …
Apple, more valuable than the whole Russian stock market, with the announcement of the new Apple Pencil, questions are brought up, is Apple really innovative as the folk wisdom really suggest? I explore the baffling logic of purchasing Apple products in this article. Read More …