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There is a real thing that a number of items that were once expensive and socially important are no longer such a thing. Clothing is a big example, entertainment electronics (tv, stereo) another.
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Retail has been gored, and this is not primary due to e-commerce. Ppl are buying cheap stuff at big box stores.
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I would say that cars and houses are some of the last big ticket status items that most ppl still strive for, but new urbanist abandons even those.
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When I was a kid, ppl could make a living breaking into houses and stealing stuff. It's a dying way of life.
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This is like a zen koan
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Anti-consumerism as an animating leftist cause is a relic of the 90s & early 2000s (Naomi Klein's "No Logo", Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day, culture jamming, etc). Ppl who pushed this stuff back then either became irrelevant or moved on (eg anti-neoliberalism). Except Banksy.
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Turns out that the problem w/ consumerism isn't that it brainwashed ppl into defending & reproducing capitalism, but that it's not woke enough for non-whites & LGBTs.
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The return of old-fashioned socialism, unionism, & economic redistribution is partially a recognition that anti-consumerism was a luxury of a time of low unemployment & widespread rising prosperity. Also, "Consumerism for the Many, Not the Few" is way more attractive to workers.
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Anti-consumerism's last stronghold (besides pointless debates over Banksy) is environmentalism. But at that point you may well as just focus on environmental sustainability, climate change, animal rights, renewable energy, veganism, etc.
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IOW yes you're old. So am I. We're prematurely old.
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Not buying it.
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Terrible, I love it.
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i asked our top 10 enterprise brand clients and they all said nope
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etsy and patreon are more consumerist than anything that existed in the broadcast media era
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people also conspicuously consume services more than they used to
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5 Ways Millenials Are Killing Consumerism
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