Municipal recycling stations in Sweden note a decrease in the stuff that one really doesn’t need to purchase, but swipe your credit card for anyway, like electronics. Less cash and more insecurity makes us cling on to that four year old thingie, even though our neighbour bought a cooler version. The extravagance we see in time of prosperity goes beyond the usual flat screen and Wii though, as trash worker Börde Edlund gives example of:
Before, people came here with entire kitchen furnishings because they had the wrong colour.
Idiotic beyond belief, the way we live. Sometimes it just hits me. Aaaargh!
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