• etuomaala
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    1 year ago

    consumerism != capitalism

    Capitalism is the allowing of control over companies to be bought and sold without the consent of their workers.

    Consumerism is using cheap marketing tactics to sell cheap garbage to people who don’t know any better, and is mostly the result of not requiring companies to pay for the waste they create.

    Either of these could easily exist without the other.

    Stop defining everything you don’t like about the economy as capitalism.

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Also things having a pricetag != Capitalism and doing/getting something that grants brief reprieve from the nonsense also!= Capitalism.

      This meme is just rephrasing “you criticize society yet participate in it.”