How The ‘Buy It Now’ Button Weakens Us

Jeff Fox
8 min readNov 27, 2020

Convenience is a lovely thing but it can be highly corrosive to our character.

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Buy it now. Express shipping. Same-day delivery. Something taking six to eight weeks to arrive is now viewed as a horrendous hardship, relegated only to transactions with the farthest flung corners of the world which can then most often be expedited for an additional cost. It took us a while to get here but the process…

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Jeff Fox

A professional dancer, choreographer, theatre creator, and featured TEDx speaker with an honours degree in psychology, two black belts, and a lap-top.