Omniomania, compulsive shopping, or what's more commonly referred to as shopping addiction, is perhaps the most socially reinforced of the behavioral addictions.
We are surrounded by advertising, telling us that buying will make us happy. We are encouraged by politicians to spend as a way of boosting the economy. And we all want to have what those around us have –- consumerism has become a measure of our social worth.
Although widespread consumerism has escalated in recent years, shopping addiction is not a new disorder. It was recognized as far back as the early nineteenth century, and was cited as a psychiatric disorder in the early twentieth century....
http://addictions.about.com/od/lesserkn ... ingadd.htm
Paulo1 wrote:My name is Paulo, and I'm a woodaholic. Pick your poison, hah hah. Nice and cosy by the woodstove on a 4 degC morning. I hate shopping so much I almost always try and source products online. If a sales clerk comes around I'm outta there. Consumerism is simply bizarre, but it must be rooted in the same place extreme prepping and other obsessions are.
Don't you get tired of posting the same tired artwork and ideas?
pstarr wrote:ennui2 wrote:People like "stuff". Good luck trying to change human nature.
People are quite capable of moderating their behavior. It's called free will. The bower bird collects pretty trinkets, hamsters store seeds and nuts. Humans have no predisposition to hoard shiny stuff. We are captives in Suburban Consumer Ghettos and our shopping addiction has been manufactured to distract us from our own rebellious nature.
pstarr wrote:Thanks AD. A circular economy where resources and labor are apportioned by the unique culture and natural capital of every region. The free market in its clearest form. Sounds hopeful.
Earth Firsterism is not a rational economic project, but rather a call to downsize our expectations and to consider the paramount value of the planet's resources. After all everything else, our work and imagination is only added value.
ralfy wrote:A free market involves prices and competition. One that is governed by physical limitations in the natural environment may involve something like bartering or a gift economy.
pstarr wrote:And you still have not answered the Billion-Dollar question: how does a zero-sum oil-future contract between two parties (in which one wins and the other loses in equal amount), settled at maturity could possibly affect the cost and price of crude oil at the terminal?
Still waiting. Oh. And don't bother to link to another spurious self-serving comment/article by an industry playa who wants suckers like you to join in the fun. Just answer the question in a simple fashion. Okay?
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