Please Buy Literally Everything

It’s that time of year again—Please Buy Literally Everything season—and as such I’ve been thinking about consumption and marketing and all the other ingredients that when whisked together, make this an especially frantic, expensive couple of months for many of us.

Some thoughts on this:

There’s nothing wrong with buying things, but it’s far less ideal to buy things just to buy things.

You don’t get bonus points for owning more stuff, and many people make purchases because it feels good ...