Somewhere between the four-foot-tall stereo speakers of the 1980s and that tiny Bose stereo sitting on a shelf like an elf, we stopped repairing things and started throwing them away. Buying new became less of a decision and more of a constitutional right—somewhere between freedom of speech and free two-day shipping. We bought new stuff to fill our homes, then more new stuff to sit beside our old new stuff. Then we bought more stuff.

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