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There's never a point where Americans were not "consumers." Had Bostonians not been consumers, they wouldn't have had the Boston Tea Party.
by eesmith 4y ago
There's never a point where Americans were not "consumers."
Had Bostonians not been consumers, they wouldn't have had the Boston Tea Party.
- tyler_sf 4y agoThe stripes on the American flag certainly resembles the ones found on the British East India Company flag.
- zeruch 4y agoconsumerism as defined today is more aspirational and well, all-consuming as a part of social identity than it was in Boston way back when. everyone everywhere consumes, but when the very habit of doing os becomes part of the social activity, it's a very different animal indeed. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consumer-culture/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-history-of-consum... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/how-humans-became-consumers/508700/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/how-hum... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-consumer/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperw... ,,etc