Should IKEA Pay Us For Putting Our Furniture Together?

Wei Xiang
7 min readJun 10, 2022

On “prosumption,” unpaid, and gift labour

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I hate “group projects.” Most of it comes from my lack of patience and tolerance of people’s “working habits” — even though several whom I’ve worked with clearly didn’t even have one. Another reason why I don’t like it is that the teacher, instructor, or lecturer is clearly slacking off. Think about it, instead of grading 30…

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Wei Xiang

I was once asked about the origins of the universe. So, here I am doing philosophy. Ethics | Intellectual History | Chinese Comparative Philosophy