If low wages means you just are automatically less engaging in consumerism (you have to really buy the things you need and not any excess), then does this mean anti-consumerism views low wages as desirable or ideal?
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Probably, especially if it's low wages for everyone. It increases equality.
They believe part of the reason people want more stuff is that their neighbors have more stuff. Low wages across the board would fix that.
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I'd say "yes", "no" and "you've had better luck at provocation that isn't just a serious-sounding rephrase of mocking an outsider position before, this one is just trying to concentrate water by boiling it down - boring"
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You're engaging with a variety of philosophies. Anti-consumerism can be monastic, or it can be minimalist, or environmentalist, etc. Each has a different ethical/rational basis for their decisions.
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Low wages workers are more engaged with #consumerism. Where consumerism means "protection or promotion of the interests of consumers"
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Unfortunately, low wages actually increase global consumerism, while lowering global consumption aka instantaneous wealth. Global low wages are a lose lose game.
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Low wages don't stop consumerism, but increase debt and shift of priorities (instead of saving for emergencies or retirement, people spend in non essentials).
Lots of people with a high income are not consumists either, they invest instead of spend.
It's a life-philosophy thing
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Low wages, low consumerism only works in areas of low cost of living, or else no capital is saved away.
It is also I'm afraid, indicative of low motivation, low status, and low to desirability in mate selection, thus high chance of degenerative health and contentmentover time.
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