consumerism

It's great to live in todays global economy. You can order almost anything from anywhere around the world. If only you are willing to pay for the shipping.

It costs a lot to get anything shipped here in Finland. At least outside Europe (and mostly from China as well), but that has an additional burden of import fees and taxes added.

In many ways we are already living in a Brave new world, dystopia envisioned by Alodus Huxley. You could imagine there is more than enough content for us to consume and dull our minds. But the wise corporate leaders have decided to protect us at least to some extend from excessive consumption by imposing regional restrictions to the content.

I don't usually watch that much of anything. There are only few "must see" series I have watched this year. Then there are those "would be nice to see" series that I have seemingly endless list of I'm hoping to watch someday. Today's problem is there are too many of those made. Too many streaming services pushing new series out as fast as they can to keep their customers and marketshare.

Nothing seems to be designed to last these days. There are lot of disposable single use items and even those that are supposed to last longer have limited time of uses before they start to show wear.

About two weeks ago I decided to take a critical look on my daily information consumption. I had accumulated a lot of sources that produced hundred of articles to go through on my daily feeds, which I only ended up reading a fraction.

There sure are a lot of different days when Americans celebrate thing or another. And being a prime example of a capitalistic nation they have commercialized every one of those. There is always a special sales going around during those days.

For us non-americans in these days of global economy it's a great thing. As those vendors selling in the internet don't care where the buyer actually lives. So we get all the benefit for those sales even if we don't celebrate the same things.