This is a wild late stage capitalist, Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation take. The author exclusively refers to experiences as something to be bought. A Bal

This is a wild late stage capitalist, Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation take. The author exclusively refers to experiences as something to be bought. A Bali retreat, a dinner at Chez Panisse, you can imagine these as something Patrick Bateman would espouse at a dinner party. The author makes the mistake in trying to distinguish between spending money on products and spending money on services, but these are fundamentally the same thing; they are just something to be bought. Only one is temporal and once is physical. When people discuss the joys of experiences as anti-materialism, they are talking about actually doing something. Depending on your sense of adventure this could be going to a dinner party with friends, or climbing a mountain in a foreign country. True experience needs to happen in your own control, outside of consumerism. This is a well studied and written about phenomenon: see any adventure book written in the past 100 years.