Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.
Novelty is the universal cry - novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.