Consumerism
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"I shop therefore I am" --Barbara Kruger "The pseudoneeds imposed by modern consumerism cannot be opposed by any genuine needs or desires [and] unleashes an unlimited artificiality which overpowers any living desire [which] ends up by falsifying all social life." --Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, thesis 68 |
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Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. It is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen.
In economics, consumerism can also refer to economic policies that place an emphasis on consumption, and, in an abstract sense, the belief that the free choice of consumers should dictate the economic structure of a society (cf. Producerism, especially in the British sense of the term).
See also
- Affluenza
- Anthropological theories of value
- Anti-consumerism
- Bourgeois personality
- Commercialism
- Commodity fetishism
- Conspicuous consumption
- Consumer activism
- Consumption (economics)
- Economic materialism
- Frugality
- Geoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychologist)
- Horace Kallen philosopher
- Hypermobility (travel)
- Greed
- Homo consumericus
- "Keeping up with the Joneses"
- Moonlight clan
- Philosophy of futility
- Planned obsolescence
- Post-materialism (economics)
- Steady state economy
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Schwartz argues that eliminating consumer choices can greatly reduce anxiety for shoppers
- The Century of the Self, a documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis released in 2002
- Simple living
