Consumerism is the pinnacle of 21st-century production efficiency and environmental degradation. It is an economic ideology promoting conspicuous consumption, creating positive feedback of manufactured desires, overproduction, and exploitation
By persuading consumers that such consumption enhances social status and well-being, consumerism justifies the ubiquity of nonessential products, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and significant strain on Earthʼs geophysical limits for unsustainable economic growth
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I wouldn’t worry about it, capitalists have been consumed by consumerism and are now driven to hoard so much wealth that soon consumers in the west will no longer be able to afford the essential non-essentials we’re told we need or even the subscription services we’re told we can’t live without and the whole system collapses.
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Consumerism is the pinnacle of 21st-century production efficiency and environmental degradation. It is an economic ideology promoting conspicuous consumption, creating positive feedback of manufactured desires, overproduction, and exploitation
By persuading consumers that such consumption enhances social status and well-being, consumerism justifies the ubiquity of nonessential products, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and significant strain on Earthʼs geophysical limits for unsustainable economic growth
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I wouldn’t worry about it, capitalists have been consumed by consumerism and are now driven to hoard so much wealth that soon consumers in the west will no longer be able to afford the essential non-essentials we’re told we need or even the subscription services we’re told we can’t live without and the whole system collapses.