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Our cushy consumerist lifestyles could certainly afford to be scaled back, but taking women out of the workforce en masse would crush our GDP, and lead to a huge loss of talent and potential.

At some point, the massive power imbalance baked into the entire Western liberal-democratic polity, which drives so many people who feel voiceless and disenfranchised into consumerist apathy, fascist fantasy or both, will require radical readjustment.

In our consumerist society, “more” is often conflated with better.

In our consumerist society, “more” is often conflated with better.

In this way, Amazon has succeeded as a sort of consumerist tobacco, an engineered addiction — easily accessible, affordable in small bursts but costly over time, a known “bad” entity with existential repercussions.