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> If consumers don't purchase the products produced by the capitalist factories then the system would come to a standstill. thats interesting... so you are say
by andrekandre 4y ago
> If consumers don't purchase the products produced by the capitalist factories then the system would come to a standstill.
thats interesting... so you are saying that it is capitalism itself presupposes that consumers exist, and without it you can't have capitalism...?
it kind of makes one ask which came first...
- Towaway69 4y agoI would argue capitalism arose with the invention of money, before that humans bartered. Consumption was the aim of the barter system also, so I would say consumerism came first ;)
- Kbelicius 4y ago> before that humans bartered This account of history of money is largely viewed as bunk by historians since there exist no evidence or description of a barter economy in our history.