I recently finished reading Virginia Postrell's "The Future and its Enemies", which I thoroughly recommend to anyone reading this (and a nod of thanks to Grant McCracken who recommended it on his blog.)
Today I am enormously enjoying Postrell's review of another book called The Age of Abundance (that I haven't read yet) if only for this line:
"We have so much stuff you can run a wildly successful and much-admired business selling boxes to put it in."
English readers might also note the phenomenal expansion of businesses like Safestore, The Big Yellow Self Storage Company and their ilk. Did no-one really notice that our economic problem shifted a generation or so ago from "how do we allocate scarce resources?" to "I can't even fit all this crap in my house"?
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