Has anyone else seriously thought about how stupid a concept the economy is?

We have to buy and discard buy and discard buy and discard perpetually.
If we don't do that all of human society implodes.
It's pretty much that simple.

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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

While at least half the world's population is poorly housed, poorly fed, and can't afford to buy anything because the available jobs are behind artificial walls/borders we build. Is planned obsolescence and disposable products really the most stable economic philosophy? Japan's embrace of quality control sort of taught Detroit that the answer was no.