Consumerism
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Your iPhone's battery dies too quickly. Your laptop slows down after updates. None of this is an accident... In the 1920s, manufacturers secretly formed a cartel to destroy prod...
Video games are a safe object of critique b/c the target is basically straight, white men. You never see these same critics go after romance novels, reality TV, etc.
"You are solely responsible for the destruction of human based media and art." "Don't care. I had fun." https://t.co/OdEn7LJLFO
HOW TO TELL IF SHOES ARE WELL-MADE One of these shoes costs $150. The other costs $1,285. Can you tell which is which? ๐งต https://t.co/ENEq6BzUSt
A clothes dryer is excessive electricity consumption for nothing. A drying rack in the bathroom is sufficient. Then the comments of the style "complicated to dry clothes in winter...
So much of modern consumer capitalism revolves around getting us to consume more and more added sugar. Sugar, wheat, oil (including plastic) basically run the world. https://t.co...
Young man: Let's be real, don't spend money you don't have in the name of Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is nothing more than a consumerism concept, a gimmick to please womยฃn wh...
Christmas Special: How Coca-Cola created Santa! This thread explores how "Santa Claus" as we know him today was largely a creation of American commercial markets. Most of today's...
every day when i log online i think to myself "why am i not seeng MORE ADDS from the Kraft Heinz Company" https://t.co/whToKlD7sq
In our fucked up civilization "individualism" increasingly means having the freedom to express your uniqueness by choosing between hundreds of makes and models of automobile while...
Interesting all the applause she's getting from people on the Right for saying identity politics is in danger, when the same Right repeatedly says identity politics to be *the* dan...
This thread begins with the 1950s, because we must forget everything before the Wars. And we must forget how almost all other societies have lived. The lonely 1950s housewife must...
i worry that the way progressive discourse has developed over the past 6 years, instead of actually creating liberatory potential, has reduced morality into *purely* a matter of co...
Some of the neo-Brandesian views (like the hatred for Wal-Mart 15 years ago) often seems grounded less in consumer welfare and more in a view that everyone should be shopping at ex...
The transformation of a zero-waste to a landfill-laden land happened with mass hypnotizing of masses using ads and by making western habits normative for Indians who had spending p...
1/ Modern society is awash in stuff. Thereโs stuff at the grocery store. At the hardware store. At Amazon and eBay. We eat stuff, wear stuff, buy stuff, and store stuff. Click some...
very funny to see a thread from a scholar of religion telling me not to mock "Disney adults" because these are people finding religious meaning and it's like no i get that it's act...
1) Much contemporary entertainment is hostile to its consumers in various ways overt and subtle, and people pick up on that. 2) The problem is so widespread that if someone actual...
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If she's into those expensive weaves (Brazilian, Peruvian or whatever) or into iPhones, that's a red flag. The bourge wannabe woman is the worst thing that can happen to a man's li...
Got a reading reminder of something I read few years ago. This topic bothers me a lot - Consumptionism. What bothers me is that people conflate this with GDP and say - Consume...
24 Most Unhealthy Things Society Encourages You To Do. - Thread -
Can women stop this fantasy of someone paying for something they buy? Let's start from there. Why should a stranger i never knew pay for my stuff? Oga go Pay for less privileged....
absolutely no one is ready to pay what clothing and textiles are actually worth in labor costs and every time we talk about fast fashion we collectively seem to ignore the fact tha...
