Fixation How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet by Sandra Goldmark, 2020
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. But we don't need to wait for them.
Y'know, there's an easy way we can fight back against the enshittification of everything, both online and off. I never realized it, but i've been fighting back all my life.
Never click an ad and consciously avoid spending any money on a company that successfully managed to fling its advertizing feces in your face.
If ads didn't work, the entire capitalist structure of the internet would collapse. Do your part. Make them not work on you.
Yes, our entire world is directed toward promoting #consumption and #profit, with the aim of obtaining, maximising, and retaining #PersonalWealth (mostly for #Billionaires and the #SuperRich). It's that that is causing all of our problems, I think?