In Defense of Cheap Things Future Perfect

The Trump administration says cheap goods aren’t part of the American dream. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change, artificial intelligence, vaccine development, and factory farms, and also writes the Future Perfect newsletter.

A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. They’re wrong.

In defense of cheap stuff.

by Kelsey Piper

Apr 11, 2025, 12:30 PM UTCFacebookLinkAmazon boxes during a delivery in New York in 2020. Victor J. Read more about it here.