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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.

— Christopher Lasch

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✓Similar Perspectives

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

— Christopher Lasch

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

— Tipper Gore

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between the family they seek to regulate and the market they hold free.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

— Tim Jackson

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

— Jeff Bezos

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

— Shiv Khera

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

— Aloe Blacc

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

— Muhtar Kent

✗Opposing Perspectives

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

— Ronald Coase