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Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

Book by Geoffrey Miller · 5 quotes · Signaling, Consumer Capitalism, Consumism

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“Even in the twenty-first century, we still can't buy sane parents, successful siblings, or sensible children. We can't even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong -artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.”