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Arlie Russell Hochschild

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
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People frequently purchase new cars and iPhones, then quickly get rid of them to buy the latest models. This cycle of buying and discarding has sped up in recent years, meaning we replace things more often than before.

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