Stuff
Stuff sucks life out of you. Americans are brainwashed to consume more and more every day. Unfortunately, this consumerism is spreading around the world. It should stop. Although I’ve wanted to describe it here, I could not figure out a clear way to express the weightlessness I feel after having eliminated nearly all my stuff.
Someone has written a fairly good article describing these ideas for me:
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/11/21/the-hidden-costs-of-stuff/
Paul Graham wrote about this very topic recently as well. He does not seem to follow the idea to its conclusion, nor is the writing particularly well suited for the non-technical, but it’s another opinion:
http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
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