Man, I feel this. Infinite growth is an insane concept.
“the young people”
So they’ve stopped calling everyone under the age of 45 millennials?
It warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
it comes at a social cost though.
i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs.
Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.
dude, eating good food with others and travelling really are experiences. No branding is necessary.
they are consumer goods like any other.
you can cook a meal at home and travel locally. but few are interested in this because it is not a ‘display of wealth’, the way your week in Bali is or your tiktok dining blog.
You know what sucks about this? How prices on used items and thrift items have gone up…
Yeah for a while going to goodwill and stuff became trendy so they pumped those prices up. I see just awful stuff priced at new or near New prices which is insane
Oh that’s so true. I have looked through all the thrift stores in my surrounding and they all had really bad clothes for bad prices. When you can get a new top in a size that fits for 5€ at H&M it makes no sense to pay 12€ for an H&M shirt that has holes in it and doesn’t fit right just because it is from a thrift store.
I don’t buy clothes often, I have much more than enough from when I was a teen. But I think that when I do, in the future, I’ll just go straight to a normal store. I don’t see the sense in spending the time and energy if it isn’t worth it at all.
they are going back down now that supply chain is stabilized.
my car has dropped $5000 in value between this year and last year.
I’m GenX and my body is still ready for this. Let’s fucking gooooo