Waste has a certain beauty to it. French Palaces, all you can eat BBQ, Christmas shopping, free samples, bonus rooms.... What constitutes beauty and luxury? And what takes that to the level of excess? An 200% increase in home size in the past 30 years? Over the last 20 years my own parents went from a square footage of about 1200 to 4700 sf, with a break where we lived in a 700 sf loft, to 3500 sf to 1200 sf again. Each one was good, but it was interesting how great our family adapted to 700 sf after 4700 sf.
What about applying that to a much quicker turn around than a building? I've had probably 7 cell phones in 10 years. One broke, one I could only use in Europe, two others I could only use with that provider and had to switch phones when they switched names or merged. The rest... upgrades.
I saw this the other day in a NY Times
blogNow I how badly do I need an iPhone?
Cell Phones #2, Atlanta, 2005. (Chris Jordan)
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