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The Day the World Stops Shopping

The Day the World Stops Shopping

J.B. MacKinnon speculates about what would happen in the real world if everyone suddenly stopped their unsustainable shopping.

Since Covid lockdown and quarantines were just a few years ago and as it’s still easy to remember how quickly nature rebounds with wonderous birdsong, clear canal water, and incredible blue skies, MacKinnon’s speculations are easy to visualize

WEIRDest People in the World

The WEIRDest People in the World

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Henrich argues that it was first the Catholic Church’s strange practices of reducing the power of extended kin-groups in Europe and then various other protestanty-based ideals which further changed the social psychology of Europeans. And then how the habits of European social psychology bore fruit by encouraging higher rates of education, technological advancement, sharing with strangers, and trust in non-related others.