MrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months ago‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down12
arrow-up159arrow-down1external-link‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comMrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square46fedilink
minus-squarefubarx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up26·5 months agoIt warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·5 months agoit comes at a social cost though. i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs. Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.
minus-squareJamesStallion@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agodude, eating good food with others and travelling really are experiences. No branding is necessary.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·5 months agothey are consumer goods like any other. you can cook a meal at home and travel locally. but few are interested in this because it is not a ‘display of wealth’, the way your week in Bali is or your tiktok dining blog.
minus-squareJamesStallion@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoYeah, but no one had to “rebrand” anything. They have always been experiences.
It warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
it comes at a social cost though.
i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs.
Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.
dude, eating good food with others and travelling really are experiences. No branding is necessary.
they are consumer goods like any other.
you can cook a meal at home and travel locally. but few are interested in this because it is not a ‘display of wealth’, the way your week in Bali is or your tiktok dining blog.
Yeah, but no one had to “rebrand” anything. They have always been experiences.