The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system
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The desire for new things is essential to the continuation of the capitalist system (capitalism).
In order for it to keep growing, it must keep manufacturing new things and selling them for profit.
Source: Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism.
- So
- Capitalism creates and shapes desires.
- See also
- growthism. consumerism.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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