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The real issue is not consumption itself but its patterns and effects.Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the 20% of the world’speople in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total privateconsumption expenditures – the poorest 20% a miniscule 1.3%.More specifically, the richest fifth:Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth 5%.Consume 58%
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Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that is actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process
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Nothing can trend upward forever.There are now more than 8 billion people on the planet; more than twice as there were in 1960.
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Consumer culture is the ideological infrastructure that dictates and motivates peoples activities of consumption.
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These are the people who the controlling system (the wealthy, the “power elite”; those who own the media, the government, the means of production) has fooled into policing themselves and who it seeks to control even more, not just with bread and circuses, but with anxieties and drugs as well.It is no coincidence that the
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Social Media/Mass Media, under the influence of market forces, functionally acts as a propaganda machine.