MrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarefubarx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year 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-up0·1 year agodude, eating good food with others and travelling really are experiences. No branding is necessary.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year 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.
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.