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We don’t need to buy stuff? Peak Consumerism

We don’t need to buy stuff? Peak Consumerism

By Kim on July 21, 2011

Post-GFC, there are now arguments in places like The Economist and the New York Times that we’ve passed Peak Consumerism.

Posted in Consumerism, Creativity, Featured, Life, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Consumerism, consumption, economic growth, GFC, household economies, production, slow, Sociology, two speed economy, value | 55 Responses

Living in a material world

By Anna Winter on December 31, 2009

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful” — William Morris This year, my New Year’s resolution is that everything in my house must be either useful, beautiful, or both. [...]

Posted in Culture, Life | Tagged Consumerism, new year, new year's resolutions, pleasure, stuff | 72 Responses

OMG! Only 32 bucks in discretionary spending today! The economy is finished!

By Mark Bahnisch on December 9, 2008

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/barbarella_green.gif" align=left … of course I am unstimulated, being neither a pensioner nor a family. But for what it’s worth, I bought Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy and Urban Legend at Rocking Horse, contributing to alt.music store sales and [...]

Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, bernard keane, Christmas, Consumerism, economic management, families, fiscal stimulus, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, pensioners, recession, retail spending, Rudd government, saving | 44 Responses

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