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i was pretty young (<10) when i realized the television was always referring to me as a "consumer" and it felt awful, even then. if anything, i'm a "customer".
by tossAfterUsing 7y ago
i was pretty young (<10) when i realized the television was always referring to me as a "consumer" and it felt awful, even then. if anything, i'm a "customer".
i hadn't, until today, realized that it was a Neoliberal thing.
thanks for your comment.
- abyssin 7y agoAs Mises wrote: "When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace." https://mises.org/library/meaning-market-democracy https://mises.org/library/meaning-market-democracy
- tossAfterUsing 7y agohttps://mises.org/power-market/was-mises-neoliberal https://mises.org/power-market/was-mises-neoliberal