I really liked this article.

More and more I feel as though my life and the lives of so many people around me is cheapened as we are treated as tools to generate growth and consumption.

I long for a world where I and those around me are working to make a world that has moved far beyond the consumerism and the competition attitude. I want to collaborate with my fellow people, not compete with them. This is possible for all digitizable value, but it takes work to build a library of wealth not held down by intellectual property restrictions.

It is possible though.