Maybe for some it looks cheap, but I'm running around with a cracked display protection and I aint gonna get a new one before I get a new phone, to get the most use of my money spent.

#environment #ecofriendly #consumerism

TIL consumerism (explicitly the department store) was set up as a weapon against the working class, in this episode of @parismarx 's Tech Won't Save Us. This makes so many things clearer.

"Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the history of consumerism and where ecommerce goes in the next few years as interest rates rise and its market share stalls."

#ClassWar #consumerism #capitalism #Podcast #PodcastWhileCooking

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/170_the_online_shopping_boom_is_over_w_amanda_mull

TIL consumerism was set up as a weapon against the working class, in this episode of @parismarx 's Tech Won't Save Us. This makes so many things clearer.

"Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the history of consumerism and where ecommerce goes in the next few years as interest rates rise and its market share stalls."

#ClassWar #consumerism #capitalism #Podcast #PodcastWhileCooking

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/170_the_online_shopping_boom_is_over_w_amanda_mull

UK folks..... don't get the tubs of Celebrations, Quality Street etc, there's barely anything inside them.

#Consumerism #UK #Shopping #LateStageCapitalism #YoureOnlyBuyingAPlasticTub #Chocolate #RipOffBritain #Capitalism #Celebrations #QualityStreet

Why I hate #fastfood. (1.)

Rockpools adjacent to a National Park on beautiful Umina Beach and some idiot leaves a #McDonalds plastic milkshake container right in the rocks. This wasn't washed up by the tide; this still had milkshake in it, so it was placed there by some uncaring hand. Why do some people have such little respect for the wonders of nature?

(And yes, I "disposed" of it; i.e. sent it out of sight towards landfill. How many millions of these plastic containers are littering the earth? We can do better than this, I think.)

#plastic #plasticpollution #waste #pollution #consumerism #capitalism

Do you want to know how peace and freedom feels like?

Stop consuming mainstream media and only search for information on alternate platforms when you need to. Don't follow VIPs, politicians or alike.

You will soon begin to wonder why you didnt do this earlier.

#digitalwellbeing #consumerism #msm #news

Happy birthday to my first book baby! "Clutter: An Untidy History" made its debut on 9/1/20. Three years and three editions later, it's earned out its advance and is still finding readers. I hope it won't be an only child too much longer, but I sure am grateful for it. Thank you to everyone who's bought, borrowed, read, listened to, shared, posted about, or otherwise supported it (and its author). I heart all of you. #clutter #decluttering #organizing #MarieKondo #consumerism #bookstodon

"Where tourism was once a way to broaden our horizons and gain a deeper understanding of other cultures, social media and the global economy have changed that. The point is no longer just to consume new experiences — it’s also to be able to show that consumption to followers back home."

#instagram #colonialism #consumerism #socialmedia
https://www.latimes.com/california/latino-life/story/2023-08-29/what-should-we-do-about-instagram-colonialism

I find myself more focused on individual and communal state of being these days. It takes effort to resist consumer states of being in a culture which is dominated by them. There are alternatives which need more development.

#consumerism #consumer #being #wellness

Ricardo Levins Morales poster catalog, p670: Capitalism is not healthy for children and other living things

A complicated concept made simple. Capitalism has a low regard for health and for life. Poster available here: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/capitalism/

#youth #children #AntiCapitalism #captialism #consumerism #MastoArt #FediGiftShop

Cool art.

But, these are human-made structures and quite ephemeral ... if we want them to be and do something about it.

#logo #branding #capitalism #consumerism #satire

#consumerism #painting by #artist Marc Trujillo

https://www.flickr.com/photos/endofwords/albums/72157676088886273/with/31763284553/

I have no interest in clothing stores because almost all of them are generic. I don’t sense any uniqueness after a glance at the clothes in those stores. It’s just not worth my attention. Maybe it’s just me idk. #fashion #mall #consumerism

"So one and a half per cent of U.S. G.D.P.—which would be bigger than the G.D.P. of many countries around the world—is just the stuff that people got for Christmas and said, ‘Nah, do they have blue?"

- "What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?" by David Owen

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/21/the-hidden-cost-of-free-returns?src=longreads

#sustainability #consumerism #fashion

@LibreIvan there's a term for this. #consumerism

#Greenwash is relatively dumbed down information.

So, why do many people believe in greenwash?

#psychology #disinformation #politics #business #news #religiosity #faith #hope #money #consumerism #greed #vanity #hubris #ignorace #nonsense

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #solutions to #ClimateChange include producing and consuming less.

#Corporations are the worst #polluters because they #manufacture demand and need (e.g. planned obsolescence), then recklessly #pollute to meet that artificially inflated "need" for goods.

We must decrease our individual #consumerism while also forcing #businesses to stop polluting.

Ending #corporate #pollution and our rampant consumption are both required, and more.

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110866880055507382

I have somehow managed to find myself in Kidzania in London (don’t ask!) and this place is a #capitalist dystopia of epic proportions.

Child #labour, mass #consumerism, waged work and I shit thee neigh, they even have a Shell station. With #climatecatastrophe, this is blatant propaganda.

Do not ever come here. Ever

Premise: Human caused #CimateChange has a high probability of causing a system wide ecological collapse, therefore cultural collapse, because the average human enjoys doing \ taking part in activities that pollute the air (e.g., vehicles, BBQs, campfires, eating meat, etc)

The fundamental #psychology of feeling good about sitting around a campfire is a stone age brain behaviours

Environmentally maladapted, on average

#AirPollution #money #consumerism #greenwash # #probability #ClimateCrisis

The concept of #conscious #consumerism is not just another buzzword, but a driving force behind consumer choices and investor decisions. (Exactly how fast is fast fashion?)

https://wonderful.co.uk/blog/conscious-consumerism-and-tech-for-good