Consumerism
Spending money not equal to happiness
Don't seek external validation for happiness
Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalysis
- Mass consumer persuasion
- Product placement in movies
- Moved humans from needs (things you need) to desire (you want it, doesn't matter if you need it or not)
- Dress has become an expression
- Consumptionism
- Consumerism
How Consumer Propaganda Changed America | Epic Economics - YouTube
Anti-consumerism
- Asceticism
- Affluenza
- Alternative culture
- Anti-capitalism
- Autonomous building
- Billboard hacking
- Buyer's remorse
- Bioeconomics
- Buddhist economics
- Buy Nothing Day
- Collaborative consumption
- Collapsology
- Commodification
- Commodity fetishism
- Commune
- Compulsive buying disorder
- Conspicuous consumption
- Consumer capitalism
- Consumerism
- Conviviality
- Criticism of advertising
- Culture jamming
- Degrowth
- Do it yourself
- Downshifting
- Earth Overshoot Day
- Ecological economics
- Ecovillage
- Ethical consumerism
- Feminist political ecology
- Food loss and waste
- Freeganism
- Gift economy
- Green consumption
- Hyperconsumerism
- Laconophilia
- Local food
- Microgeneration
- Mottainai
- Non-possession
- Overconsumption
- Planned obsolescence
- Relative deprivation
- Right to repair
- Political ecology
- Post-consumerism
- Simple living
- Slow Food
- Steady-state economy
- Subvertising
- Sustainable consumer behaviour
- Sustainable consumption
Conspicuous Consumption
The spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power." (related: Veblen goods - "types of luxury goods, such as expensive wines, jewellery, fashion-designer handbags, and luxury cars, which are in demand because of the high prices asked for them.")
A classic example of this would be a luxury watch: A Rolex isn't better at telling the time than a cheap Casio -- but a Rolex signals something about its owner's economic power and thus their social standing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption
Planned Obsolescence
In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain predetermined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function, or might be perceived as unfashionable. Once regarded as a conspiracy theory, the rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle"). It is the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product to force people to purchase functional replacements.
Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia