MrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth - Economics as if People mattered@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-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 - Economics as if People mattered@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·2 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-up6·2 months agodude, eating good food with others and travelling really are experiences. No branding is necessary.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·2 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-down1·2 months agoYeah, but no one had to “rebrand” anything. They have always been experiences.
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.