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Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

— Alfred Marshall

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

— Susan George

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

— Paul Hawken

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

— James Surowiecki

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

— Miley Cyrus

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

— Ha-Joon Chang

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

✗Opposing Perspectives

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

— Adam Smith

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

— Godfrey Reggio

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

— Noam Chomsky