Substack essay reflecting on shopping, consumer culture, and the exhaustion it produces.

Everyone is selling, no one is buying.Oct 03, 2025∙ PaidWhy do people buy what they buy?It’s a question I can’t stop circling, and one I imagine is haunting the creative directors pacing backstage this season, praying their new vision can do something no one seems able to pull off anymore: make people actually purchase things again. A few years ago, I wasn’t thinking about any of this. I was too busy being e…Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Amy Francombe.