Living in a material world

Isn’t there already enough crap in the world?  Crap as in stuff.  Material things.  I can’t stand it.  But there’s no stopping it.  More junk just keeps getting churned out day after day in hopes that you open your wallet.

Not long ago, if you wanted say, a picture of a cat, you were out of luck. Only a few people even owned a camera.  You had to draw it, paint it, or sew it.  Now, just imagine how many pictures of cats there are in the world.  And how easily you could buy 100’s of them with just the click of your mouse.  (Ha, cat and mouse.)

I recently went to the Goodwill, to donate a few bags of things I no longer need, then I went inside to poke around a bit.  The loads and loads of crap in there is amazing.  Especially all those nick nacks that have no use whatsoever.  And not only were they never of any use to the person who once owned them, but they have no use to ANYONE else.  Ever. Except to look at them.  And  dust them off.

Then I thought about all the money that was spent over the years, by all the people, on all this crap.  And what GREAT things that money COULD have been used for, collectively, to help people if it had not been wasted on all this nothingness.

If only all useless crap in the world would go away.  And all the money in the wolrd was distributed evenly and appropriately.  If only.


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