[jgoodhcg]

I was just thinking about this the other day. I think it’s the relatively recent concept of “throwing things away”. I don’t think in much of our evolutionary history we’ve had the concept of planned obsolescence. Lots of the physical items I come in contact with are intended to go to the landfill within my lifetime. It would also make sense that any resource scarcity would trigger hoarding behaviors.

[pengaru]

When viewing this problem through an evolutionary history lens, I generally arrive at something like: "Well of course hoarding is a problem, people didn't evolve confined to cages where possessions accumulate. We'd just be nomadic and leave a trail of compostable waste in our wake of unkempt stashes and habitats."