Talk:Consumerism

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Editorial notes This article could do with presenting and analyzing actual arguments from both pro-and-anti-consumerists.

This article is crappy

And it goes to a source (http://www.globalissues.org/issue/235/consumption-and-consumerism) which points out that global inequality in consumption is falling. And the whole thing is slanted to hell in not even humorous ways, which is a shame because this is a funny topic. Longnameislonger (talk) 04:46, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Could you elaborate as to the slanted nature of the article? I take it you do not think that it is critical enough of consumerism? Also, what is the matter with the globalissues source? ConfusedLiberal (talk) 02:40, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

This REALLY needs a rewrite

The current version of this article is a very one-sided attempt at apologism for consumerism and capitalism at large that seems far more focused on refuting arguments no one is making rather than actually being informative about consumerism as a societal phenomenon. A section that particularly stood out to me was the last paragraph of the "Effects of Consumerism" section which goes off on a weird tirade against an imagined demographic of "muck-racking" journalists saying Western consumerism is harmful to workers in the third world and makes a fallicious non-argument that if not for consumerism overseas sweatshop workers would be prostitutes and subsistence farmers?

While I don't think the article has to be explicitly anti-consumerism in its tone to be acceptable, I think it needs a significant rewrite that provides more academic information on the topic and, most importantly, focuses more on presenting arguments made for or against consumerism by prominent individuals like philosophers or economists, rather than trying to play archair debater against vague points no one is making.^{— Unsigned, by: KingK / talk / contribs}

I removed the last paragraph of that section as that was admittedly shit. Carthage (talk) 05:16, 19 October 2024 (UTC)