Consumism Quotes

“A nosotros los estadounidenses, lo único que nos interesa es el consumo de nuestros productos. No nos interesa cómo los fabrican o qué les pasa, lo que pasa cuando los desechamos, cuando los tiramos a la basura.”
― M.T. Anderson, Feed

“Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Vanity about physical appearance is an equal-opportunity vice; the males just target different physical traits for amplification and display using different products.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Fools toast each other's wealth, whereas sages toast each other's health.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Even in the twenty-first century, we still can't buy sane parents, successful siblings, or sensible children. We can't even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong -artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior