https://aeon.co/essays/instrumentalisation-is-making-everything-a-means-to-an-end

>>In the era of late capitalism, our autonomous agency has increasingly been expressed through our status as consumers. Freedom is above all the choice of how to spend our money, with the promise that everything we need can be obtained in exchange for cash. The consumer mindset has affected how we relate to everything, not just the things we buy. The result is that the world has become essentially transactional, meaning that everything is an instrument for getting something else. <<

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'There is a difference between compensatory good - like Mark Zuckerberg one day donating 99% of his shares to charity - and intrinsic good, where the actual business the company is involved in is a positive force.'

― Douglas Rushkoff

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