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Why we buy things to convince ourselves of who we are

I keep buying farming equipment I cannot afford because each purchase feels like proof that this is really my life now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Material accumulation becomes a desperate ritual of identity-making when the self feels uncertain.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Agricultural traditions — farming as examined life?”

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