As a millennial a house is considered materialistic.😂 My family didn't fight in a world war so I can have it.😢

Sickening isn’t?

FELLOW-AMERICANS ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO FILL THE HOLE WITHIN THEMSELVES. THEY NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH THEMSELVES, GOD, AND DOCTOR OR RATIONALIZE THE “BAD FEELINGS” AND RESENTMENT.

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The irony for me is that for how money is spent americans dress like slobs for the most part.

I know a few households that have purchased Tesla's just to go to work in. The remainder of the time they just sit in the owner's garage. An educated, calculated decision no doubt!

Anyone knows the music at 12.20 please?

Came from being poor, came from the parent, grandparent and the great depression, fear of going back and, of course, advertising 24/7 brainwashing.

Rakuten, here in Japan, use the line: "shopping is entertainment". in any case, more and more, marketing/consumption is focussed on capturing (sic) your attention with the latest audio-visual entertainment.... suck that stuff into your brain folks, don't miss out now, it's NEWWWWWWW....

Interesting documentary. We can all do much to change the direction we are headed. The big question is, do we want to.

Think of it this way, when you're gone, everything you owned someone else has, your house, your car, your jewelry, your clothes, your furniture.....

Startedbout strong, then ran off the rails after 30 minutes. :(

people were complaining about consumerism, now people complain about not being able to afford anything

Now its vaccines Get your Jab Take one for the team. Be a team player

what is 'flatware'?

Edward Bernays and Milton Friedman have a lot to answer for their actions.

A eye opener. Thanks

When you think a bit harder, at the end, everything we bought ends up in the landfill and we’re not happier nor better than before. Do our planet a favor, be a conscientious consumer. Consume what you NEED, and ignore all the ads come to your way.

Excellent.

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If anyone is watching this in 2023, for sure is thinking that things are getting even worse.

All because 37:06 it is an actual mental-illness.

"Our society is being subjected to a kind of mind control". Only the ones who are sufficiently soft in the head.

and yet in 2022 we still think we are doing alright.

If this documentary is so important and should be viewed by everybody, and consuming ephemeral goods is bad, why is the company that made it charging 250 USD for a license? Hypocrites.

Wow, what a wake up call. What have I (we become). I grew up poor, spent money wisely and was by necessity a minimalist. I was no less fulfilled.

If you break the hedonic treadmill and learn to dopamine fast, then you can ascend beyond this shallow consumerist state.

What the name of the song with the flammable part in it called?

They need to study tartaria

"IT'S----JUST----A----COUCH!!!!" -Lester Burnham

She is rather presumptuous to label someone as either a "good" or " bad" parent. What makes her think SHE can judge that?

I’m totally exhausted so I’d my debit card, roll on new year I say 😷😷😷

So we've Gotta compete in order to help ourselves in return.. Economics is crazy for real.

FORCED INTO CREATING THE SUPER RICH If everyone in the world used solid gold, silver and copper coins, instead of paper money, your national wealth is stable to an extent. If I understand economics..... If a country keeps buying and buying and buying and making the super rich like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos even richer, their paper money is worth something. But if a country is austere they are punished by the super rich by making their paper money worthless. Having created this super rich they now want to take us over like a 4th Reich. They are used to punishing us if we do not comply with their plans. I stopped shopping on Amazon when Jeff Bezos insisted I make returns only with the 666 QR Code. I will never buy another Bill Gates item. I do not pay my TV licence as I don't want to watch one sided indoctrination. These are ways to fight back. Now they punish us with loss of freedom if our Governments do not buy into vaccines and tests. It is the same mafia style reward and punishment system money is based on. The way I understand the bible if this is the 666 System time period, we need Holy Ghost timing to survive to the Rapture, or.... to leave early.

CONSUMERISM.... is trashing the Earth. It is not that we have things. It is that we trash them before their life is through. A 2nd problem is in Victorian times things were built to last, now they are built to go defunct or break. An example is computers. Bill Gates makes his computers to go defunct, so he can make a resale. I strongly suspect he also is the person responsible for the viruses in his own computers, to force resales. So he talks about ecology but is a total hypocrite and made multi billions by trashing his own computers. Then he thought maybe..... how about releasing viruses on humanity too.

never felt so understood

Our age needs Spirituality, but "...spiritual requirements of life, will recede further and further out of reach as long as consumerism continues to act as opium to the human soul." [] ~ The Universal House of Justice, Baha'i Faith

This documentary actually hits harder now that everything in it is out of style. Items that were once so sought after are by now completely valueless.

Its kinda uncanny that im watching this whilst looking to buy something on amazon...

I only have two shoes, and you can fit my whole clothes in a luggage. Why woukd they buy something that they wont use regularly?

I like the song at the end of this brilliant documentry. "Armageddon, come and get it..."

Just to help this point, this video has no ads

The Corona panfemic is the big reset.

1:15-3:00 good grief this is my life 🤦🏾‍♀️

NIce doc, kinda falls apart at the end with the suggestion that we can solve this by changing consumer behavior. The problem is well beyond the means of the consumer to address, we've been trying it for 10+ years now and we're no better off. We need people to take back control of their governments and use them to hold big business accountable.

This is the formula for war. The oldest conflict is the fight for resources. Mad Max, Water World, etc all are stories about how the rush to consume and energize our lives proves to be very costly.

Unless I live in a cave I won't be able to escape consumerism even independent shops still use electric or plastic

I feel more alive when I work on my garden or when I work closely with my students (individuals with disabilities and or disorders). Even as something simple as feeding local cats is more alive than shopping. Shopping for me is just getting goods and products that I use and need, but no material value in the sense of brand name which is superficial for me. I buy it because I actually use it and truly want it do to its utility. The whole nation use to be like this. I never cared for the Jones's. They seem to be boring. LOL

Thanks for this! reply to me please. Can we Be friends? :o

28:38, are they saying they are Neanderthals? Pale skin did not exist in humans 3 million years ago.