<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: To Shop or Not to Shop?
Happy Black Friday Eve. A friendly reminder that you have even more reasons than usual to ignore those marketing emails this year.
Ah, Black Friday—the Super Bowl of marketing, when a million tiny voices in your inbox shout in staccato: Hurry! Wow! Look! Now!
Given the current supply-chain snarls, should you rethink jumping on that irresistible deal? I caught up with our in-house consumerism maven, Amanda Mull, who writes our “Material World” column, to discuss the annual avalanche of sales and her recent argument that the wealthiest Americans should quit buying so much stuff they don’t need.
The conversation that follows
