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# Consumerism
Consumerism is [cancer](cancer.md) of society created by [capitalism](capitalism.md), it is the societal tendency towards and force established [culture](culture.md) of making members of society into mere slaves that have to constantly keep consuming products and services just for the sake of keeping bullshit businesses running. Consumers have to stand with open mouths at the end of [producer](productivity_cult.md) asses that are constantly shitting out new and new excrement, and this process must never stop. This soon degenerates into such things as **[artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md)** and **[planned obsolescence](planned_obsolescence.md)**, things that could last long must be made so that they will NOT last long, they must break soon so that the user has to consume a new one periodically, just like he consumes food, because that's what makes the [corporation](corporation.md) most money. So people are consuming computers, cars, swimming pools, cell phones, doctors, political drama, healthcare, things that make them sick, thing that make them healthy again, and so on and so forth. Even things that could be made to last long, such as buildings, or even forever, such as discovered [information](information.md) -- e.g. old books -- are artificially killed (for example using [copyright](copyright.md)), so that new ones have to be made so that people can keep having [jobs](work.md) and be miserable and don't have to lie on the beach and be happy. Businesses that would want to create non-consumerist products cannot exist -- a business that sells a thing that lasts 100 years will have to wait 100 years to sell another one, so naturally there is no chance for it to survive among those that make it so that they're selling the same thing each half a year, that's why consumerism in capitalism is unavoidable: it simply pays off, it makes the company rich and the richer company survives. Of course this is all pure [bullshit](bullshit.md) that wastes lives of people, makes them miserable consuming machines that get depressed and commit suicides, while also creating enormous amounts of waste that are destroying the environment, just capitalism as usual. Under consumerism your life is expected to go like this: be born, consume, die.
Consumerism is [cancer](cancer.md) of society created by [capitalism](capitalism.md), it is the societal tendency towards and force established [culture](culture.md) of making members of society into mere slaves that have to constantly keep consuming products and services just for the sake of keeping bullshit businesses running. Consumers have to stand with open mouths at the end of [producer](productivity_cult.md) asses that are constantly shitting out new and new excrement, and this process must never stop. This soon degenerates into such things as **[artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md)** and **[planned obsolescence](planned_obsolescence.md)**, things that could last long must be made so that they will NOT last long, they must break soon so that the user has to consume a new one periodically, just like he consumes food, because that's what makes the [corporation](corporation.md) most money. Or perhaps "[update](update_culture.md) the infrastructure" (5G! 6G! 7G!) and kill all devices that worked on the old infrastructure. So people are consuming computers, cars, swimming pools, cell phones, doctors, political drama, healthcare, things that make them sick, thing that make them healthy again, and so on and so forth. Even things that could be made to last long, such as buildings, or even forever, such as discovered [information](information.md) -- e.g. old books -- are artificially killed (for example using [copyright](copyright.md)), so that new ones have to be made so that people can keep having [jobs](work.md) and be miserable and don't have to lie on the beach and be happy. Businesses that would want to create non-consumerist products cannot exist -- a business that sells a thing that lasts 100 years will have to wait 100 years to sell another one, so naturally there is no chance for it to survive among those that make it so that they're selling the same thing each half a year, that's why consumerism in capitalism is unavoidable: it simply pays off, it makes the company rich and the richer company survives. Of course this is all pure [bullshit](bullshit.md) that wastes lives of people, makes them miserable consuming machines that get depressed and commit suicides, while also creating enormous amounts of waste that are destroying the environment, just capitalism as usual. Under consumerism your life is expected to go like this: be born, consume, die.
Consumerism is additionally pushed by capitalists by many other means, for instance by psychological pressure such as extreme [marketing](marketing.md) that constantly creates artificial trends, hypes and fashion waves, or by economic means such as [inflation](inflation.md) created by printing money -- this is a simple trick for a state (nowadays controlled by [corporations](corporation.md)) to take away money from people so that people can do nothing about it, and this is how capitalism makes it impossible to save money: once you try to save money, it simply loses its value and you end up with nothing, so you're forced to immediately spend any money that you make. You must not stop, just consume, work, consume and work -- people that don't want to engage in this cycle are unwanted by the system and left to starve.