This is a message a lot of people would benefit from hearing. I think it’s oversimplified as a binary, but many people should move in that direction. There is

This is a message a lot of people would benefit from hearing. I think it’s oversimplified as a binary, but many people should move in that direction. There is power in treating things as consumable. It’s easy to only think of the cost, but this is very limiting. I am extremely gentle by nature. In high school, a teacher didn’t believe I’d read a book because it looked so new. The binding was still tight. This gentleness is not always warranted. What breaks me out of it is thinking in terms of trades. Trading textbooks for an education is a great trade. If it will help you to rip out the pages and put them on your wall, go for it.