Buying for Buying's Sake

Annie Leonard is a longtime thought-leader of the sustainability movement who has always made a strong and compelling argument against our system of consumption.  In many ways her work makes her strong candidate to be one of the four busts on a hypothetical Mount Rushmore of Collaborative Consumption.  I just stumbled on a great little fact of hers in a image on Unstash.

Source: Unstash

So why do we buy so much when we use it so little. Thank goodness for all of the energy and innovative thinking that is going on in the shared economy that is hopefully reducing these purchase decisions.  Let's stop buying for the buying's sake!