As industrialization swept the globe, our scarcity brain kept doing its thing, pushing us into more. We now all have so much shit that we have an entire industrial complex designed to help us manage all our shit. We buy books and watch TV shows that teach us the magic art of culling and organizing our shit. Storage units, discrete locations we pay for so we can hoard more and more shit, are not only a thing; they’re also one of the nation’s fastest-growing business segments. There are now more self-storage facilities in the United States than McDonald’s, Burger Kings, Starbucks, and
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