consumerism

Popularity is slippery, and shouldn’t be confused with quality, says critic A.O. Scott.

Our personal choices can help to effectively combat poverty, says Peter Singer.

Recycling is linear, but the economy shouldn’t be.

Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.

We can produce more stuff with less labor. So why are we still working?

Are you prone to “toxic accumulation”?

If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?

After China stopped accepting recylables, California was put in a tough place.

The question is, how can we make employment fair for everyone?

An ecological silver bullet is missing the target altogether.

The world’s largest retailer has evolved “like a flea market,” according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.

Until the use of prison labor is banned, many stakeholders will be incentivized to prevent felons from being rehabilitated.

Recognizing the consequences of your actions requires consideration of the long game.

In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.

A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.

He says his company would survive even if Instagram disappeared tomorrow.

The strike is poised to happen on Amazon’s upcoming “Prime Day.”

The Ghazipur dump keeps growing and growing every year, catching fire and leaching toxins into the ground. What can be done about it?

100 percent fruit juice is still 100 percent sugar.

Buying cards and flowers on Mother’s Day would make Anna Jarvis roll around in her grave.

Modern capitalism is a “very silly” way of organizing life, says Yanis Varoufakis.

Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.

It was a good month.

Here’s why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.

One way to limit clutter is by being mindful of your spending.

Most people don’t just think the world should be run meritocratically, they think it is meritocratic.

Food deserts are a problem. One solution might already exist.

A new book on the music distribution service claims it is.

The famed science fiction author coined the term “cyberspace” before it existed.

China’s export growth model hit a wall. So it reinvented itself.