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  1. David Graeber _ Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

    Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried. Those who work shit jobs tend to be the object of indignities; they not only work hard but also are held in low esteem for that very reason. But at least they know they're doing something useful. Those who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers - as the sort of people who can be justly proud of what they do. Yet secretly they are aware that they have achieved nothing; they feel they have done nothing to earn the consumer toys with which they fill their lives; they feel it's all based on a lie - as, indeed, it is."
    book-quoteinspirationalworkconsumerism

  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ The Last American Man

    writers like Jack Kerouac {who called himself an "urban Thoreau"} set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of "work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...
    book-quoteculturekerouacconsumerism

  3. Leo Tolstoy _ On the Significance of Science

    That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production {which means that a mass of things are made which are of no use to anybody, and with which nothing can be done}.
    book-quoteconsumerism

  4. Cornel West _ Race Matters

    This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience."
    book-quoteconsumerismcapitalist-market

  5. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class"
    book-quoteconsumerismcuriosity

  6. Colson Whitehead _ The Colossus of New York

    You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. {Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?} And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.
    book-quotechangelossmemories

  7. Charles Stross _ The Fuller Memorandum

    Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
    book-quotehumoursavingrpg

  8. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    ... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he {who claimed never to have learned anything of value from an old person} was an enemy and not a friend. His scorn of commerce--invigorating to me--nettled a lot of the more vocal kids in Honors English. "Yeah, right," shouted an obnoxious boy whose hair was gelled and combed stiff like a Dragon Ball Z character--"some kind of world it would be if every-body just dropped out and moped around in the woods--
    book-quoteconsumerismdragon-ball-zenglish-class

  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Pygmy

    According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
    book-quotewantingconsumerismamerican-society

  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
    book-quotegodfree-willconsumerism

  11. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
    book-quotemorewantconsumerism

  12. John Berger _ About Looking

    The small family living unit lacks space, Earth, other animals, seasons, natural temperatures, and so on. The pet is either sterilized or sexually isolated, extremely limited in his exercise, deprived of almost all other animal contact, and fed with artificial foods. This is the material process which lies behind the truism the pets come to resemble their masters or mistresses. They are creatures of their owners way of life.
    book-quoteconsumerismcapitalism
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