i agree about the increase in keeping digital information. i have about ten terabytes of my digital collections. i couldn't afford a place large enough to keep all of that in the form of actual books, but i could carry my library away in just an oversized suitcase.

the majority of my property is actual tools that i use to make life happen. from hammers and screwdrivers to pots and pans, the amount of things we use to make life happen can be unwieldy, but unless we desire to be monastic hermits living in one room cells, the balance must be reached.

i've been watching the raspberry pi's get smaller, and cheaper. soon the controllers will have lost all control. the amount of knowledge that is within the average person's reach is unfathomable. if we can only get the tools of understanding distributed widely enough, liberty will be ours, and scarcity will be a thing of the past, then we may be free of this drive to acquire and store.