When Less Is Better - Breathing Space Blog

A new year that perhaps merits an old perspective: In his The New Republic article, Tim Wu encapsulates what too many people fail to understand:

"If the old world of scarcity yielded a mass population that was hungry, bored, and impoverished, our current surpluses lead to a population that is fat, in debt, overwhelmed, and swamped with too much stuff."

"The miserable in Dickens’s times -- malnourished, impoverished, overworked -- had the right to blame social conditions and demand change. But in today’s richer world, if you are overweight, in debt, and overwhelmed, there is no one to blame but yourself. Go on a diet, stop watching cable, and pay off your credit card -- that’s the answer. In short, we think of scarcity problems as real, and surplus problems as matters of self-control."