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Consumption. If your life is defined by consumption, you’re not adding anything to the world, which is where most people experience meaning. Maybe you’re plan

• Ancapistani 6y ago
  > If your life is defined by consumption, you’re not adding anything to the world, which is where most people experience meaning. I disagree! It's not a life I would choose to live, but as you might guess from my username I absolutely see value in consumption. If GP desires to live a life defined by consumption, by all means, they should do so. Regardless of how "adding to the world" is measured, the capital that GP controls will be transferred to the people producing the content GP consumes - people who are by definition "creators". If it makes GP happy to be primarily a source of resources for the creative class, I see no social negatives to that behavior.
  • thrav 6y ago
    Almost by definition, they must be adding something to the world to acquire that capital —- so they’re definitely adding something to the world. I didn’t mean to suggest it’s a social negative. I only meant to suggest they’re defining their meaning by an odd side of the equation.