10 Shady Origins Of Consumerism In The US

[Capt Worley PE]

This is a rather dark take on American consumerism and how it came to be. Actually, it sounds like something I'd come up with...

Consumerism and the practice of flaunting one’s status through clothes, jewelry, and other things has existed since the dawn of civilization. Yet, the endless cycle of working to buy has never been more rampant than it is now. How did the United States, a nation founded on Puritan, non-materialistic tenants become filled with the biggest shoppers on the planet and end up occupying 29% of the World’s consumer market? As it turns out, Americans were carefully and systematically manipulated into becoming insatiable shoppers.

http://listverse.com/2013/05/16/10-shady-origins-of-consumerism-in-the-us/

 

[sycamore PE]

This sounds like my cynical view on consumerism, too. Now if only I could convince my parents and in-laws that they do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on their grown children every Christmas. . . Seriously, they are all tied up in the money = love fallacy, and I don't have room to store junk.

 

[knight1fox3]

^ tell them Amazon gift cards instead of actual physical gifts. :thumbs:

 

[Supe]

This sounds like my cynical view on consumerism, too. Now if only I could convince my parents and in-laws that they do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on their grown children every Christmas. . . Seriously, they are all tied up in the money = love fallacy, and I don't have room to store junk.

Money = love, provided that money is used to buy car parts.

 

[knight1fox3]

This sounds like my cynical view on consumerism, too. Now if only I could convince my parents and in-laws that they do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on their grown children every Christmas. . . Seriously, they are all tied up in the money = love fallacy, and I don't have room to store junk.

Money = love, provided that money is used to buy car computer parts.

Fixt.

 

[Ble_PE]

This sounds like my cynical view on consumerism, too. Now if only I could convince my parents and in-laws that they do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on their grown children every Christmas. . . Seriously, they are all tied up in the money = love fallacy, and I don't have room to store junk.

Money = love, provided that money is used to buy car computer parts hookers and blow.

Fixt.

Fixt for good.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

This sounds like my cynical view on consumerism, too. Now if only I could convince my parents and in-laws that they do not need to spend hundreds of dollars on their grown children every Christmas. . . Seriously, they are all tied up in the money = love fallacy, and I don't have room to store junk.

Money = love, provided that money is used to buy car parts.