Sublime

Modern aspiration economy is anchored not in accumulation and display of possessions or even experiences, but of social capital, environmental credits, and cultural savviness (Currid-Halkett, 2017; Eckhardt, 2020).

allowing the frame of organisation as hero to take hold (or servant, which can in practice be much the same) compounds the reduction in agency already inflicted by conditions like Parkinson’s

An arresting plea for ‘small is beautiful’ in an economy increasingly oriented around breakneck growth, financialization, increasing monopolies, and industry consolidation.

Modern cities operate under an economic theory that is less than 300 years old, and our theory of evolution is less than 150, so we don’t yet fully understand their implications. We have not developed an overarching meh to energize our cities, to permeate them with a worldview that aligns our economic, technological, and social advances with the we

The Selfish Capitalist toxins that are most poisonous to well-being are the systematic encouragement of the ideas that material affluence is they key to fulfillment, that only the affluent are winners and that access to the top is open to anyone willing to work hard enough, regardless of their familial, ethnic or social background – if you do not s

Generation), who each ended up getting

Nick Hildyard at The Corner House

Although there were large parts of the world where lower incomes restricted American- and Western-style levels of consumption, the aspiration – which is to say the underlying story – was still taking root.

There must be some kind of sustainable model to it.