Think Capitalist Consumerism is Bad? Wait Until You See Political Consumerism
The parallels are strong—and troubling.
9 min readSep 18, 2020
A common worry voiced by critics of our modern, market-driven economy is that capitalism leads to — and depends on — consumerism. For capitalism to sustain itself, corporations need us to always be buying whatever it is they sell. They thus work to make consumerism…