Linda Papadopoulos: How to want less in 2018

We live in a world that conflates having more stuff with having more happiness. Everything, from the food we buy to the shoes we own, to the number of followers we have on social media, screams more. We celebrate people for their accumulation of wealth: compiling rich lists and rankings; we measure the progress of nations by calculating GDP; social media success is measured by the number of followers one has. It’s all about the accumulation of ‘more’- more money, more success, more followers, more everything – and because...