People who want to theorize post-consumerism fail because they fail to identify a strong positive-valence, positive-feedback alternative to "convenience" as a driving attribute of material life. Behavioral attribute, not value/virtue. "Clean" or "environment friendly" ain't it.
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Consumption automation also implies budget management automation. Bringing the idea of "pay yourself first" (a slogan common in the US that means "automate deposits in retirement savings") to all your spending, but without getting into unsustainable spending.
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Fortunately the bar to beat there, at least in the US (and possibly most of the west) is low... people suck at living within their means and avoiding credit card/other debt traps. Automated consumption is likely to do better than humans do.
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Like driverless cars but for personal finance. This tech needs to be invented, since all automation is for/by the forces designed to get people into debt traps rather than into a healthy financial state.
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Post-capitalism challenge is to invent a way to do 3 things at once: a) keep pace of economic life as fast as it needs to be via consumption automation b) use the automation to make it sustainable environmentally c) decouple pace of human life from pace of economic engines
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The anxiety loop is primarily triggered by the availability of endless trivial, low-effort "convenience maintenance" actions that allow us to feel like we're doing something but simply let the anxiety compound into chronic stress int he background.
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