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We're not consumers we're people. Please stop calling people consumers as if the only value we bring is the consumption of mass produced goods.
by rorykoehler 11y ago
We're not consumers we're people. Please stop calling people consumers as if the only value we bring is the consumption of mass produced goods.
- speeder 11y agoIn the current monetary system that is unfortunately true. Note that I am not blaming "capitalism" but the current monetary system (that is based on debt). Consumption is necessary for most countries in the world right now to keep them going, as soon consumption stops, the countries fail. (also you can get into stagflations, that are terrible: ever-increasing prices, including food and rent, while income an jobs are declining, this is happening right now in Brazil... 5 days ago I went to buy cheese, and it is 3 times the price of 5 years ago! And I am unemployed, as is all people that went to college with me 5 years ago!)
- calibraxis 11y agoPlus, we're producers too. Corporations try to make us feel grateful to be allowed to be producers, lest we stay depressed at home as unemployed. Not to mention defining out of existence all the uncompensated labor people do... (And of course, they have their thumb on the macroeconomic scales which result in this curious phenomenon of "unemployment". Pretty sick, irrational societies.)