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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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A tax on convenience (either financial or behavioral) isn't the same thing as an alternative to convenience. I think the answer is "automate materiality to regain control over temporality." The thing people hate about convenience-culture is that it accelerates life.
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100% agree with this thread. But what to automate? We start on household bills that most people hate - gas / electricity, broadband, home insurance. We make better decisions than majority do themselves saving them a lot of money. But where next in discretionary spending is hard.
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Yeah and even stuff like dollar shave club is an automation of a part of consumption in a way. But this stuff doesn’t feel like it can really flip the dial. Handing over control to someone you trust to buy for you is the future and is a big leap from pantry boxes / subscriptions
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This has historically been a "wife" :D Still true in my life... I let my wife handle 99% of all consumption decision-making because she cares more, is better at it, and is energized rather than stressed out by it :D (because she's fundamentally higher tempo/higher energy person)