Hah, “fix”. Basics like food and electricity is already becoming way more expensive. Don’t get how someone can write multiple paragraphs on this stuff and not

Hah, “fix”. Basics like food and electricity is already becoming way more expensive. Don’t get how someone can write multiple paragraphs on this stuff and not mention “planned obsolesence”. Consumer capitalism is not a lifestyle but an economic system. Every household is supposed to have 1–2 cars, one lawnmower, one electric snow blower, one chainsaw, one of every this and that tool, and so on. And everyone is supposed to buy something new when these things break down. Not fundamentally because labor is expensive but fundamentally because consumer capitalism demands consumption.