Anticonsumerists, like all socialists in general, are racists. They tell us that things made by Chinese are lower in quality than those made by whites. They are opposing the moving assembly lines and manufactures to the developing countries to prevent such countries from developing and starve the population out.
If they tell you do not buy that brand new Nike boots but send your money to Africa instead, they tell you to take that bowl of ramen out of the shaky tired hands of Chinese or Honduran or whoever and pour some Kalashnikov cartridges into the greedy hands of Somalian warlord.
Anticonsumerists love to play with the obvious ideas like why do you need to wait till particular date to make a gift or something special for your significant someone. But they won’t tell it straight, they will blame you buying gifts for your wealthy beloved ones instead. That’s their point – to make you feel guilty – to gain some control over you.
And making you guilty is not the only strategy. They have another ace up their sleeves – flattery: they call you rich. Do you live on a paycheck to paycheck budget? Oh, you are rich, you are so freaking wealthy, because a lot of folks over there somewhere got no paychecks at all.
Actually, most of the really rich people are not anticonsumerists. They do not prey on money or goods, but they won’t lose a chance to buy a good thing for a good price. And this is quite logical. What more interesting – the really poor people are not anticonsumerists too. They know the price of money and they know what exactly they need.
Who’s that anticonsumerists though? Socialist fatasses with a fat paycheck or the grant driven slackers or the students on a welfare – just draw a picture of Michael Moore – he is one hell of a quintessence.
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