Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy (opens in new tab)

<p>I want to pass on this condensation by Google Gemini of <a href="https://kyla.substack.com/p/buying-futures-renting-the-past-how" target="_blank">a recent essay by Kyla Scanlon</a>&nbsp;</p><p data-path-to-node="0">In her essay, "Buying Futures, Renting the Past," Kyla Scanlon explores how the modern economy has shifted toward two psychological extremes: speculation (buying the future) and nostalgia (renting the past). She argues that because the present feels increasingly "hollow" or unmo...