Corporations want you to “consume“ because that's in their self-interest. Meanwhile nation states also want you to do that, and need you to do that because the

Corporations want you to “consume“ because that's in their self-interest. Meanwhile nation states also want you to do that, and need you to do that because the economic system itself relies on it. In other words you have all the actual authorities on the side of consumption and the non-authorities like environmentalists on the side of non- or anti-consumption.