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Our whole system revolves around people buying shit they don't need/want to keep up with the ridiculous pace at which we produce shit we don't need/want. I thi
by lm28469 4y ago
Our whole system revolves around people buying shit they don't need/want to keep up with the ridiculous pace at which we produce shit we don't need/want.
I think 3/4th of my kitchen is composed of stuff people threw away, and everything is 100% working.
The depressing thing is that the extreme vast majority of people have completely accepted it as the only possibility, as if no other way of life ever existed and will ever exist
> The ideology of consumerism acts like a fault in its manufacture, it sabotages the commodity coated in it; it turns what could be the material equipment of happiness into a new form of slavery.
> Premature burial is an axiom of consumerism, imperfection a precondition of planned obsolescence
Raoul Vaneigem
- cpsns 4y agoThis is pretty much exactly it and I agree with you 100%. Most of the stuff I own works exactly as it should, but was someone else's junk. I didn't want to call out consumerism too directly or by name, because people tend to take it badly. Even a lot of the comments here are quite defensive and I didn't even get into what I truly think about the situation. There's no way this system is sustainable long term.