“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.” SocialLevelsCareersEconomyGrowingCarDependsClothesExpectationsDareDeterminedFactorsConsumersRisingContentmentConsumerismFashionableOverconsumptionNew CarSocial StatusPrestigiousGrowing EconomyFashionable Clothes Author:Paul Brand
“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.” ShouldKindWholeChristianGrowthPoorPovertyRichDependsMajorityConsumersConsumerismUnlimitedOverconsumptionStimulationCovetousnessNonconformist Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.” IfsThinkingWantBelieveIdeasAbleI BelieveWaitingTermPayDependsIncreaseDetermineCreditHorribleConsumersExpensesMinimumPayment Author:Trina
“High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.” EconomicDependsEatingIncomeConsumersFuelGasLivelihoodGasolineDieselGas PricesDownturnEconomic DownturnDiesel Fuel Author:Major Owens
“A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.” PersonsHas BeensFactsValuesOrderResponsibilityIdentityDependsHigherCivilizationSurvivalMassRootsEnvironmentalConsumersSustainabilityProjectionSense Of ResponsibilityValue SystemsDemoralizedDemoralization Author:Vaclav Havel
“Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude. That is presumably the object of the multibillion-dollar global advertising industry. Tea drinkers are improbable prospects for Coke sales.” AttitudeObjectsDependsIndustryHabitBehaviorDollarsAdvertisingTeaConsumersAddressesConsumerismManipulateCokeProspectsOverconsumptionImprobableDrinkersBehavior And AttitudeAdvertising Industry Book:Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy Source: Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
“We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them” NeedsGovernmentStuffDependsConsumers Author:Jacob Sullum
“The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.” KindSuccessfulEnvironmentInformationProductsDependsAmountAvailableAdvertisingConsumersEffectiveness Author:Michael Schudson
“I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?” IfsThinkingWantMayCountryEconomyPolicyDependsScaredSpendingChineseConsumersSymptoms Author:David Wessel
“The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.” ThinkingWayChildrenFactsMightOrderCarDependsPicksOur ChildrenConsumersFeaturesTraitsNormUnconditionalParentalParental Love Author:Michael Sandel
“Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?” WantKindWholeProblemFacesGrowthEconomyEconomicDependsInventionTemptationConsumersMechanismSeductionNoveltyEconomic Growth Author:Zygmunt Bauman