Past: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018756" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018756</a> (2019)<p>The general theme of the article is too many choices in shopping, however this connects with the general psychological concept of Overchoice[0][1] whereas it can be more difficult to make a decision when you have many different choices and very little information to use to pick between them.<p>From the shopping angle I think this is relevant to modern times due to the supply chain issues and questioning on do we need a lot of the crap available to buy.<p>On the overchoice angle I think you can connect it with many things, a couple that come to mind is the increasing homogenisation of world culture, particularly in the western direction, and people becoming lost on the internet because there is so to speak too much there and no way of knowing what is good to pay attention to and what is not (there was a thread on this recently here).<p>I hope this may provide some stimulating discussion.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice</a>
[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice</a>