Minimalism Is a Luxury Good
How the urge to simplify becomes more things to buy
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8 min readJan 28, 2020
Maybe it started with the iconoclastic act of throwing tea off the boat in Boston Harbor, or perhaps with the misperception that North America was simply a blank space before the pilgrims came from England and the pioneers headed West. In any case, the United States is particularly vulnerable to the charms of minimalism.
