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The idea that you can only ever use air travel for _necessary_ trips (ie it's not okay to fly just to take a pleasurable vacation occasionally) is just more individual shaming.

Great video!

It's one thing to say that the global supply of the energy source known as food is large enough to feed everyone if distributed more equitably---to get a rough idea whether or how true this is, just divide the estimated global supply of calories by the human population---and entirely another to vacuously suggest (at 16:40) that the same holds for ALL renewable energy sources! It's a shame to see an otherwise great video tarnished by hand-wavy nonsense.

Excellent point, the tragedy that our activism has been reduced to voting with our dollars. Chilling, really.

Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing this.

Funny how excess hoarding of “stuff” is categorized a distinct mental disorder but hoarding of money isn’t.

Cars cannot provide freedom when they are the only choice

It's crucial for businesses to adopt sustainable models that prioritize long-term value over short-term gains, aligning growth with environmental and social responsibility. 🌍

I was just scrolling on Instagram and almost bought a pair of pants I didn’t need. I closed the app, came here and found this! Will not spend my money, I have way more than I need😅

First step to combat consumerism - stop using Instagram

Everyone Else: Addicted to spending. Me: Gluing my shoes back together😂😂

I don't know his "targeted advertising" ya'll are experiencing. The ads I get are to completely irrelevant products from companies I hate vigorously, sometimes in a language I don't understand

Saying "we need to stop doing capitalism" and "this is how we get the ball rolling to stopping capitalism" are two different things. So far I haven't seen any leftist channels talk about how in any real depth or with any regularity, and when they do it's almost always platitudes/generic advice like "join a political party" or "start a worker cooperative" or "organize" or "start/join a union." They don't help anyone because those aren't actually "how" suggestions; they're just "do this one thing and cast your thoughts and prayers to the heavens that something will change" suggestions. A lot of people who hear "organize" or similar things don't know where to start. Thinking about it is overwhelming, and based on the severe lack of organization and movements to organize it seems that most people quit before they ever begin. And that's a massive deficiency on the left. It's obviously important to tell people THAT things are broken and why, but it's equally if not more important to tell them what they can actually do about it and HOW they can do it. "Join/create a union/cooperative/party/etc" doesn't tell them either of those things, it just tells them "be part of something." On that note, I have a blog linked to my profile that is all about what individuals in an atomized neoliberal capitalist society can do to get the ball of democratization and organizing rolling, starting with "just little ol' me and a little bit of time to socialize with the people around me." It goes through how to start, how to appeal to/incorporate rural communities, why I suggest this approach to organizing and democratizing, the principles and goals, some supporting theory (it's not a theory-based blog because theory doesn't tell you how to do things), how to start building the foundations of a democratic economy, and how to expand the organization to larger scales while maintaining/protecting democracy. For now it can only be accessed through my profile (I don't have a website, so it's just a wix starter for now), but if anyone has a site of their own, feel free to plagiarize the bajeebies out of it. I don't need credit or anything. All I care about is that it is useful...and isn't hidden behind a paywall.

Socialism. we need it.

As someone who works in adverising the last section made me stare at a blank wall for 10mins

> imagine everyone involved into decisions, not only CEO It’s called Democracy But what we have now - is called Oligarchy- power of minority

Consumerism is mainly driven by women

US, the country of excess

lol on what planet is $90 for a travel bag jaw dropping?

And while watching this youtube shoves commercials down my throat like forcefeeding a french duck. What actually leaves me with a sense of disgust instead of making me buy their useless stuff.

another thing the capitalist has achieve is to show the world that the antithesis of capitalism is communism, which stripped your freedom before all of us can feel equal why do you think that lenin's revolution is funded by US financial institution, is it coincidence? of course not all of this is by design, and the world fall for it after all, in today society, if we deny capitalism as a system, we will be branded as communist

I'm immediately reminded of a couple of lines from Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol;" 'Hark the Herald Tribune sings | advertising wondrous things' and 'angels we have heard on high | tell us to go out and buy.' So people have been at least somewhat aware of consumerism since at least the mid 20th century.

I actually feel uncomfortable when i see bunch of stuffs around. slowly adopting minimalist and frugal living. its better for my mental health since I am not always on shopping apps thinking about the next thing to buy. The world needs more and more people like you.

Almost like a bad dog owner. You don't blame the dog; he's just doing what he's been told or forced to do. You blame the owner.

Spirituality, Meditation, Mindfulness, The Power of Now, Monastics etc is the way if you ask me. It will protect the life supports we evolved from, heal humanity and brings prosperity & riches. I don't think our corporations need to go away but they have to evolve to a new age.

I absolutely hate spending money. I hate shopping, I hate buying things, especially necessities because I have no choice. Every time I spend more than $20 I’m immediately drained of all joy and energy, and just filled with a feeling of dread and impending doom and general depression. Fortunately my indecisiveness and hesitancy to spend money has saved me countless times from impulse purchases.

The current ability to feed eight billion people presupposes normalizing the fossil fuel dependent methods of Big Agriculture, whereas local sustainable organic farming could only feed a fraction of that, including reveal the widespread phenomenon of artificially inflated populations.

*Whole food plant based for the environment* and health; vegan for the victims!

It seems as you want to change the game within the game. Changing a system by the institutions already in place, which are corrupted. There has to be a "demolition" first, before any kind of change. Look out your window and leave the screen and you will realize that in this planet all change takes place with the cycling of what already is. It is not a production line but a circle. To change what we have, a new way of being must arise first, most likely triggered by an unforseen and forceful or painful event that will leave no option but to change and evolve to something else. In other words an environmental trigger. Until everybody cannot do anything else but to worry about real needs and relearn what is basic, there will be no change and that, unfortunately, always comes with pain.

Supply comes because of Demand, not the other way around. capitalism merely provides you with what you demand, nothing more. Have some common sense: overproduction can NOT continue if consumers don't buy it. everything starts with consumers. how could you come to any other conclusion? My theorey is that people just want someone to blame for all their useless purchases. How many people do you know that buy a brand new iphone every 3 years, regardless of the fact that the older version is just as good as the new one? Well, I'm proof that you don't need to do that. I haven't purchased anything useless for years! and no ad or marketing scheme is going to change my mind. Oh and Ads. Ads do NOT create need in me. Sure, maybe for millions of other hapless souls. But, i define my own needs. and no ad is going to be able to change that. maybe that's why i feel the vast majority of ads are completely misguided and even strange.

When you say "fill the void in our lives" you do mean filling the stomach with food in order to stave off starvation, right?

You are actually under the hook of capitalism and consumerism after all. No one can leave from this circle. easier speaking loudly than doing actually.

I think one of the biggest challenges is getting these things in motion from a true grassroots movement and less from government regulation, since at least half of the people have zero faith that the government has the interests of the people at heart (and not without reason). And also to get people to build a mutual, communal support network to provide for each other without being beholden to their paycheck to meet their needs. Food, water, shelter, power- they need to be able to have reliable access to that if they want to fight the system.

We need a Venus Project. It's better than just a revolution or so

I think that having a worker-led socialist economy would also result in products that are actually good quality, because the main focus wouldn't be to make more and more profit, but to actually build something that would be useful to people and the community. This could be good quality homes that aren't mansions that people would actually be able to afford and live in, or sustainable clothing rather than fast fashion.

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I love the term "imperial core". It's ubiquitous in leftist circles. The funny thing about it is that it's a Star Wars term, the core of the Death Star. You pesky rebels! It's hilarious. Imperial core is a term of privilege, a nonsense term. Look at you, begging for handouts from people you claim are exploited, alienated, trampled by imperialists. To pay your rent? To pay your healthcare? Have you no shame? Have you no self-consciousness whatever? I do hours of research every day, and maintain a regular job. This is cartoonish.

Streetcars were more practical than electric cars

I think it's maddening that peoples priorities is having children rather than collectively coming together to change the state of the world. You'd think with social media it enables people to come together and to fight against the tyranny of the world, but it's ironically made people more disconnected.

Our climate is always changing and always will.

Awwwwe poor guy.

Also sure, companies wants profits. If everyone doesn't buy what's unethical, thus making unethical products unprofitable, no company will produce them. I wish ending climate change is that easy.

Things are expensive

Author Kimberly Latrice Jones gave an impassioned interview during the BLM protests pointing out how the poor is not helped by the rich flaunting their wealthy on social media and we fall over ourselves wanting to be like them, but we are so behind we’ll never catch up.

Just remember that even if you don't monetize the channel yourself, CZcams will still place advertising on it. So you may as well monetize it and get your cut so you can continue to pay the bills.

I'll be the cynic one. High prices and low wages IS the antidote against consumerism. You can't buy if you don't have money. Not even credit because banks won't lend.

The actual goal probably not to combat and overthrown the capitalism. But our effort and commitment to campaign better life beyond capitalistic society. Improving the life through social values, science, and spiritualism that matter more than capital and materialism.

Great information and presentation. Thank you.

As I grow older in this capitalist system, I think the solution lies in strengthening your will and power to say no. Even when they try to emotionally manipulate us into buying stuff we don’t need, we must not give in to the temptation because at the end of the day, it’s hard to stop being a consumer all together, so we must take the responsibility upon ourselves to be better consumers that exercise consciousness when we buy