If people maintained and repaired their possessions, the world economy and the impact of human activity on the environment would be transformed. Unfortunately, we as a society have been trained to love things not for their material function, but for the symbolic act of acquiring and possessing. If we want to stop the side-effects of consumer culture, we must start to learn how to be satisfied with the things we already own.
To cure affluenza, we have to be satisfied with the stuff we already own
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