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black-opal · 6 Settembre 2023

Ma dai è solo una piccola recessione :jolly:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1699348427816239171

black-opal · 6 Settembre 2023

Fare previsioni è difficile. Ci si dovrebbe preparare a più scenari potenziali, non ad uno solo, con la propria allocazione di investimento.

black-opal · 6 Settembre 2023

https://twitter.com/x/status/1699118793497403538

black-opal · 6 Settembre 2023

https://twitter.com/x/status/1699365543256748153

black-opal · 6 Settembre 2023

A 2022 study from academics at Mahidol University in Thailand found that the intensity with which someone uses social media is linked to negative shopping behaviours such as impulsive buying and conspicuous consumption. Teens have spoken out about the ways in which influencers drive them to consume; one girl told me in 2018 that after watching YouTube haul videos, “If I wanted something, I would stay up at night thinking about it.”

Examining this phenomenon also enables us to understand our brains and our beings, from the psychology of the “oddly satisfying” to the ways our identities can be branded.

Che tristezza nel leggere questo passaggio ...

In 1988, the consumer researcher Russell W Belk first posited that our purchases are part of our “extended self”, arguing “our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities”.
Collecting, Belk says today, also makes people feel accomplished. “Most people in the world are not at the top of their professions, but the little world of collecting is something where we have a greater chance of success.”

I danni del consumismo e dell'inquinamento ambientale sono innumerevoli, ma non abbiate paura, è più pericoloso il cambiamento climatico :jolly:

Yet in the meantime, almost every day scientists warn that overconsumption is killing the planet – if things continue this way, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.

“Corporations love this framing – they say that humans have got inherent desires and inherent needs for collecting or consuming and so on,” she says. “That’s a myth, that’s not the case.”