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15493655 No.15493655 [Reply] [Original]

Any books that argue for consumerism?

>> No.15493662

No.
Retard

>> No.15493667

>>15493655
Something by Coco Chanel probably.

>> No.15493675

Most mainstream economists argue for a consumption-based economy and society, and presume that human beings are basically selfish consumers who want to "have a good time" and "live well," and will go about this in minimally rational ways like not shooting up heroin 50 times a day and dying (they prefer to raise a family in suburbia and watch Marvel movies ten times a month instead)

The goal of most economists is to maximize this sort of "happiness" by maximizing "wealth" (capital) which for them means restricting government interventions in society and economy

So just read any neoliberal economist

>> No.15493680

>>15493662
I love that dog meme

>> No.15493718

Similar question: are there any works that argue for a technological society being good for the human condition? I don't mean Pinker-tier "woot, less babies dying", I'm looking for a deep counterpoint to Kaczynski's or Ellul's neo-Luddism.

>> No.15493726

Marxism

>> No.15493737

>>15493675
>(they prefer to raise a family in suburbia and watch Marvel movies ten times a month instead)
How disgusting

>> No.15493738

>>15493726
this but unironically, even if they oppose capitalism, l*ftoids are bugman consoomers and want you to be one too

>> No.15493745

>>15493675
Yeah this. Read the section of any microeconomics textbook on consumer's preferences and the like, because it's basically all just a justification for being a total hedonist degenerate.

>> No.15493929

>>15493726
>>15493738
Baits are supposed to be subtle, retards

>>15493655
None that matter, and this shouldn't even be a question. Read Plato, Aristotle, Locke, and Marx and stop asking such faggoty questions.

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>>15493655
If you're legitimetly interested then any undergraduate level economics text book. If you want memes then take a pick at anything from an AnCap reading list. If you're super interested then take a course.

>> No.15494078

>>15493655
Any mainstream (((economics))) book.

>> No.15494086

>>15493929
It’s not bait. Marxism is a religion in which the holy spirit is the production of consumable items, the Son reductive materialist philosophy and the Father the consumption mindset.

>> No.15494095

>>15494086
Read Marx, moron.

>> No.15494102

>>15493655
any that argue against consoomerism? modern preferred?

>> No.15494113

The wealth of nation...

>> No.15494131

>>15494113
... doesn't

>> No.15494138

>>15493655
Sowell and other capitalist apologists.

>>15493726
>>15493738
No. Trolling or just stupid?

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>>15494086

>> No.15494166

>>15494086
That’s liberalism, anon.
Marx is an economist. Kapital is trying to describe how capitalism works

>> No.15494183

>>15494102
Fight Club?

>> No.15494340

>>15494102
Infinite jest

>> No.15494410

>>15493655
Ready Player One