@paulg hey Paul, re-reading your 'stuff' piece from 2007 I wonder: did you succeed [& if yes, how] to convey this philosophy to your kids? I'm asking as a fresh dad & uncle [+ deeply interested since we're building a tool to finally empower everyone to break free from stuff]
They are both remarkably un-materialistic, but not for a reason I like. The reason is that all they want is video games.
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well they might have read your paragraph about books and decided that video games would act as their 'fluid' and don't mind owning several thousands of them haha
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which makes me wonder now: would finding your ONE thing you truly, really enjoy be an efficient solution against 'accumulating too much stuff' -- I might see this working for cultural objects in general [not sure about other sub-categories though]
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