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How Our Economy Was Overrun by Monsters and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

Whether as consumers, investors, voters, or citizens it might just be that if not the lion's share, then at least the cub's share of responsibility for this Great Stagnation lies with us and our predilection for more, bigger, cheaper, faster, nastier — an industrial-age, mass-produced approach to prosperity I call opulence.