[Sent out today on the newsletter. Buy the print here etc.]
The benefits of Consumer Capitalism- the dominant ideology of our age- are pretty self evident:
Lots of people having stuff, lots of things being invented, lots of livelihoods being attained, plus the greatest measure of them all- life expectancy- being increased.
But there is a cost, mostly psychological. Consumer capitalism makes us more covetous.
And covetous makes us more stressed out and less happy.
There’s no answer to it really, other than greater self-awareness…
