Andy Warhol on consumerism:
“Buying is much more American than thinking.”
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Andy Warhol on consumerism: “Buying is much more American than thinking.”
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
In an aggressive consumer culture like ours, where the financial worth of everyone and everything is the dominant theme, it takes some courage to stand for something different.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
The reality is that people love to buy stuff.
Jim Edwards • Copywriting Secrets: How Everyone Can Use The Power Of Words To Get More Clicks, Sales and Profits . . . No Matter What You Sell Or Who You Sell It To!
From this point on, growth was not just good, but the primary aim of political and social systems. We all know now where that has taken us, but some saw it early, including the economist and retail analyst Victor Lebow in 1955: Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of
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Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
We’re trained to buy often, buy cheap, and buy a lot:
Anne Helen Petersen • I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy