You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.
People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
I think when my parents were together, my family was too prosperous for our psychological health. Not that they were that rich, but I feel that usually inherited wealth causes psychological problems.
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.