You like shoes? Go buy shoes. It might even make you happier. But a shoe is just a shoe. There is a kind of intellectual honesty to the purest brand of materialism.

Turns out there is more than one kind of materialism, and not all are equally harmful.

The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad – Derek Thompson – The Atlantic

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Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.