We have literally been taught to think that mindlessly consuming is *good for the economy.*

This idea is so perfectly and mind bogglingly backward it’s hard to believe it’s as universally believed as it is.

Consumption is the destruction of goods. It’s using up stuff we need. That’s it. No economic model, or statistic about the velocity of money changes that this is all that occurred. We had some valuable stuff before, and now we don’t.

This is a stupid, and incredible lie. It’s like someone at dinner eats way more of the food so there’s less for everyone else at the table, and then they say, it’s ok I’m “stimulating the kitchen.”