395 Quotes About Consumerism

The promise of abundance is not an endless flow of goods but a sufficiency produced with a minimum of unpleasant exertion.

Board members, officers, executives, directors, managers, client service experts and geniuses: We, the consumers, want you to succeed. We dearly want to believe you know what you’re doing — and that you care about our respect and appreciation. It doesn’t take much to make us feel both looked after and loyal. But it doesn’t take much to make us feel like fools, either, and we’re less afraid to talk about it.

Some things are made way more appealing than they are by our lack of them.

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

Professions of psychiatry, therapy and mindfulness are bound to boom in parallel with unmoderated consumerism, for unmoderated consumerism facilitates self-absorption which in turn breeds anxiety, and the more anxious you are, the more you need expert help to deal with that anxiety.

Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath.

World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.