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This. The disincentive to buy anything is constantly present when you live out of a bag. It's an odd way to defeat the rampant consumerism of modern society, but it works.


Yet the author of TFA owns a Macbook, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Sounds more like peak consumerism to me.


Sure. But for the fridge, TV, washing machine and car - which together contain orders of magnitude more embodied carbon and rare minerals than his pocket-sized gadgets - he's condemned by his lifestyle to sharing them with others.




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