{"id":1859,"date":"2008-06-09T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getrichslowly.org\/blog\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:29:10","slug":"the-story-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/the-story-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every time I write about Stuff, readers point me to The Story of Stuff<\/a><\/i>, a 20-minute video about where Stuff comes from and where it goes. Until today, however, I’d never taken time to watch it. According to the website:<\/p>\n From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Story of Stuff<\/i> is an interesting short film, particularly in its last half. Writer and narrator Annie Leonard explains that the “golden arrow of consumption” is the heart of the modern economic system, a system that’s really only existed since the 1950s.<\/p>\n