People who want to theorize post-consumerism fail because they fail to identify a strong positive-valence, positive-feedback alternative to "convenience" as a driving attribute of material life. Behavioral attribute, not value/virtue. "Clean" or "environment friendly" ain't it.
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I think it’s the main one in something like “western capitalist modernity.” Arguably, it doesn’t always/everywhere has been or will be like that.
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Yes that was my implied scope... and it's spreading to the rest of the world because of lack of alternatives. Middle-classization = convenienceization. In China, it's already the dominant ethos of WeChat. In India it's getting underway in a big way.
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