I appreciate the writing style, but this article is shockingly naive to me.
Convenient consumer products tend to sell better than less convenient ones, even if the product is worse. That's the entire ...
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July 2007
I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the
poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone
is so poor...