With the Shopocalypse imminent, the Church of Stop Shopping is the only church to gain congregants in the past ten years.
When TikTok's underconsumption trend meets festive excess
Dec 2024, BBC News
There is a topic trending on a popular social media platform that celebrates "underconsumption", i.e., buying fewer unnecessary things and making the products you already own go further.(This is around the Christmas holiday btw, 10% of the United States economy.)"Trying to reduce consumption goes against the norms of consumer culture."
That is all.
Image credit: AI Art - Multivitamins - 2025
Economic inequality is a powerful predictor of democratic erosion
Jan 2025, phys.org
Economic inequality is one of the strongest predictors of where and when democracy erodes—even wealthy and longstanding democracies are vulnerable if they are highly unequal.
via University of Chicago: Eli G. Rau et al, Income inequality and the erosion of democracy in the twenty-first century, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2422543121
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