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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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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Isn't debt one of the main economic forces driving the world, though? I imagine a *lot* of people will put up a fight. Or rather hire someone else to do so, lol.
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