It must first be said - western economies are based, to a great extent, on excessive consumption, through planned obsolescence, cultural enforcement of fashion,

It must first be said - western economies are based, to a great extent, on excessive consumption, through planned obsolescence, cultural enforcement of fashion, socialization and hiding of the mounting costs of resource disposal, de-legitimization of reuse and recycling through fixing, etc. GDP must grow grow grow! ... or there are crashes. And there are crashes. In this context, I commend the author. At the same time, it seems that in addition to frugality or "non-spluring" he is advocating a life of precarity, and strong dependence on each of a bunch of commercial corporations, and this I don't like as much.