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"Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability"
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Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed up in the rhetoric of sustainability. Her new book, Consumed: How […]

Walking through a shopping mall feels both kind of fun and really awful at the same time. I see people rushing from store to store, grabbing stuff like they’re starving for it, and it makes me sick.
The whole place feels fake, like freedom packaged and sold back to us. Sometimes I laugh at how ridiculous it looks, but underneath I just feel the weight of how trapped everyone really is.
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