Capitalism is a system that requires the majority to have no control over their lives and to believe that this condition is normal. Therefore, all reactions to inequality and deprivation must be viewed as signs of personal inadequacy, biological defect, mental illness — anything other than reasonable responses to unreasonable conditions.
Simplicity is Not Deprivation
A lot of people have the mistaken idea that those of us who choose a less consumer-oriented lifestyle are somehow deprived because we do not spend money as if it were going out of style (and oh, how I wish it would). They have a vision of us, holed up in some run-down cabin in [...]
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