Tiny home on a bicycle provides shelter for the chronic homeless

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3. We need more of a sharing economy.

I grew up reading Thoreau, and Schumacher ("Small is Beautiful" ) and Lewis Mumford and so on.

So much demand is artificially induced.

One radio commercial blares out in effect "You've got to buy a new giant TV. Yours is too old".
I live happily without TV.

Billions on AI, and other than it destroying jobs (and people will have to be re-hired to correct the mistakes and hallucinations) it gives me zero benefit. I can read and write. GEE, I don't need a computerized assistant to think for me. Life is meaningful via my own experiences and thoughts. I think back to "The Matrix" and I'd rather think things through than have someone else think for me, and frame reality in someone else's terms.

It's like an arms race where you spend billions to "compete" and ultimately the best solution is that they never be used.

There's much less point to living if you're living someone else's life, and in many ways, society programs us to live someone else's life (like those perfect people in ads) or you might remember "Homes of the Rich and Famous" Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.