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[Anonymous No.5693087]

What are the consequences of Consumerism?

[Anonymous No.5693088]

We get good stuff for cheap.

[Anonymous No.5693095]

Lazy minds.

Dependence on businesses to produce happiness and meaning.

Depreciation for nature.

Existentialism.

Profitable art.

[Anonymous No.5693137]

>>5693087
>What are the consequences of Consumerism?
Lazy questions on imageboards.

[Anonymous No.5693140]

I don't think it's that serious. I used to be pretty fedora about it but as long it's not harming people (with low wages and so on oversees) then it's just a competition to swindle the plebs, which will happen anyway

[Anonymous No.5693146]

>>5693140

>it's just a competition to swindle the plebs, which will happen anyway

keep telling yourself you only "used to be pretty fedora about it"

[Anonymous No.5693151]

>>5693087
Economic growth.

[Anonymous No.5693213]

Potentially this.

[Anonymous No.5693222]

Smaller, developing nations get abused for their resources so that industrialized societies can enjoy their luxuries.

[Anonymous No.5693223]

We don't have to waste time growing/making our own shit.

It's beneficial in the long run.

[Anonymous No.5693226]

>>5693222

>as though only some countries are developing and the 'developed' countries are perfectly fine not advancing at all.

[Anonymous No.5693243]

>>5693151
and trash all over

[Anonymous No.5693256]

Illusion of choice and the upward efficiency of production vs teleological quality

[Anonymous No.5693261]

>>5693243
That's a temporary side effect with increased technology and the increased consumption of digital content rather than physical items.

[Anonymous No.5693265]

>>5693226
Comparatively we could say industrialized nations have developed into that and developing nations are trying to become that. Thus they are developing. With industrialization as the goal, already industrialized nations are considered developed.

[Anonymous No.5693303]

Money controls you

[Anonymous No.5693324]

>>5693303
the alternative being 'peasant life controls you'

[Anonymous No.5693325]

>>5693087
Cheaper goods, higher living standards in general. Tighter quality standards, no shortages of important staples and in general a more varied, stimulating and (with automation) higher leisure lifestyle.

Drawbacks: more standardization (manufacurers tend to focus on a few standard forms that meet the quality codes and a lot of "new" products are just variations on fewer and fewer themes.

The market is master: whtever is most popular and sells best tends to crowd out more esoteric and niche products, though the internet has gone a long way towards reversing this.

The commoditization of culture: mexico becomes burritos, pinatas and salsa music, Ireland is full of drunk leprechauns who write poetry. This has actually been going on a long time, but it's getting the force of the market behind it. Highland clans, crips, bloods, Indian tribes and African kings are basically cosplaying.

The marginalization of unshared cultural values. this is one of the reasons islam hates america. It's not always a bad thing, but it can be seen as cultural imperialism, or at least colonialism.

The gradual eroding of individual freedom of action. Not because products are disappearing but because codes, rules, standards and licensing laws are making it harder and harder to just "do your own thing" when it comes to building a house or starting a business or such. That, combined with the volume economy tends to make market entry dificult.

All in all, it's a very good thing. The pic just illustrates a structure that's inevitable in any economy, from feudalism to socialism, with just a little relabeling.

"Innovate, automate and inform" seems to be the best way to avoid the worst and keep the best.

[Anonymous No.5693336]

>>5693213
Sounds good to me.

[Anonymous No.5693356]

>>5693087
The consequences are that the level of consumption of the average pleb is very high and this is considered normal if not essential to a proper life to the degree that wages and welfare rates are estimated for 'moderate consumerism' rather than sustenance, which leads to frugal folks like myself who consume less to living like absolute kings with their every need easily met and plenty of spare money to boot.

So in a way it leads to the possibility of a carefree bohemian life for those not being consumerist in a consumerist society. The general greed creates a nifty niche for literary living.

We live in the best of times.

[Anonymous No.5693363]

>>5693222
>fair
kek

[Anonymous No.5693366]

>>5693356
>We live in the best of times

yes, indeed. And it is getting better rapidly.

[Anonymous No.5693367]

>>5693265
Africa has actually deindustrialised over the last few decades

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>>5693087
Death by slow roast

[Anonymous No.5693381]

Outdated Monetary system and destruction of the environment.

Ridiculous income gap and wage slavery.

Bad art that caters to sales and popularity and not aesthetics.

[Anonymous No.5693386]

>>5693381
lel u mad

[Anonymous No.5693443]

>>5693087
Please tell me that picture is satire