Key points

Our hyper focus on consumption has led us away from connection to ourselves.

Egoistic everyday moral decision-making drives spending.

However, egoistic everyday moral decision-making is not the same as self-care.

Self-care is not focused on consuming.

Tariffs are starting to make the prices of things go up. That is an issue, but one I’ll leave to the economists.

Instead, I’ve been thinking about our collective accumulation of cheap goods, and even the more intangible services we buy—subscriptions to apps for streaming, exercising, saving; Substacks for literature and politics ; services to help us get rid of the apps we forgot we had to track the shopping we are doing.

There is so much to consume. So many ways to consume. Some of the stuff is great, but a lot is mediocr

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