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[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

consumerism != capitalism

Capitalism is the allowing of control over companies to be bought and sold without the consent of their workers.

Consumerism is using cheap marketing tactics to sell cheap garbage to people who don't know any better, and is mostly the result of not requiring companies to pay for the waste they create.

Either of these could easily exist without the other.

Stop defining everything you don't like about the economy as capitalism.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also things having a pricetag != Capitalism and doing/getting something that grants brief reprieve from the nonsense also!= Capitalism.

This meme is just rephrasing "you criticize society yet participate in it."

[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You criticize slavory bur refuse to leave, smh. /s