{"id":2445721,"date":"2019-06-25T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-ideas-reporters-notebook-thats-a-lot-of-stuff\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:28:00","slug":"aspen-ideas-reporters-notebook-thats-a-lot-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-ideas-reporters-notebook-thats-a-lot-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Ideas Reporters Notebook: That\u2019s a lot of stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2019 runs from June 23 to 29.<\/strong>
Ian Wagreich\/Aspen Institute<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

However unlikely as it seems, people living in New York City share some of the same struggles as Aspenites and often end up turning to the same place to solve those problems: Amazon.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s looking for a place to buy paper products in bulk (i.e. toilet paper, paper towels, etc.) or trying to find a place to purchase clothes hangers, Amazon seems to be the quick fix answer to all the consumer dilemmas that we face.<\/p>\n

But is it really so easy? And is it truly solving our problems, or is it adding to our anxiety and habit of accumulating a magnitude of stuff?<\/p>\n

The Atlantic writer Amanda Mull set out to investigate this problem and try to answer the question of \u201cWhen did we all get too much stuff?\u201d in her aptly titled article \u201cThere is too much stuff,\u201d which she discussed Tuesday at Aspen Ideas Festival.<\/p>\n

The idea for the article was born from Mull realizing that she and others in her New York apartment building often would peruse the piles of Amazon boxes in the lobby just to see if they \u201cforgot to expect something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can\u2019t remember if you\u2019ve bought something or not enough that you\u2019re just are rifling through random boxes, then something has gone array with the shopping process, with the consumer market, with how we fundamentally interact with buying toilet papers and hangers or whatever,\u201d Mull said.<\/p>\n

She then started digging a little deeper to determine \u201cwhat the change was in how much stuff is available and how stuff is sold,\u201d and found that there has been one.<\/p>\n

Mull discovered that in the past 10 years there has been a 75% increase in global manufacturing.<\/p>\n

But with the increase in products on the market, there has started to be a shift in consumers\u2019 mindsets and a general \u201cfatigue\u201d about having a large amount of stuff in one\u2019s life, hence the increase in popularity of the KonMarie method and trend of minimalism.<\/p>\n

Mull said she believes the Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z populations are the reason for this change as a \u201cresponse to growing up in homes where we constantly had a lot of stuff \u2026 and I think there is a sense across socio-economic strata that you are just trying to find a better way to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rose Anna Laudicina<\/p>\n

The president and CEO of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods said the retailer\u2019s decision to stop selling assault-style weapons cost it $250 million in revenue, but it was worth every penny.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no regrets whatsoever,\u201d Ed Stack told interviewer Jonathan Capehart, an opinion writer for The Washington Post, on Tuesday in the Greenwald Pavilion. \u201cWe decided if we had a mulligan to do it all over again, we\u2019d do it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-sporting equipment chain\u2019s decision came after a gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018. Dick\u2019s pulled the weapons from its Field and Stream stores, having cleared the same style guns from the shelves of its namesake stores after the December 2012 shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Dick\u2019s also stopped selling guns to people younger than 21.<\/p>\n

The chain lost business from customers who opposed the tightened regulations. They continue to avoid the store, Stack said. Customers who supported the store at the time it announced it changes have mostly forgotten about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove is fleeting; hate is forever,\u201d he said. \u201cWe felt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rick Carroll<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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