Buy Nothing Day Research Paper

As humans, we tend to be massive consumers, we buy anything that we can buy and sell anything that we can sell. Money is our master while the people are its slaves, we listen to what the markets have to say and follow what everyone buys. This is something that people who don’t support the “Buy Nothing Day” would say. Buy nothing day is a day where people literally buy nothing to cause awareness of excessive consumerism. But in all honesty people need to see the good in things, and the good of consumerism is that there is a smaller gap between the poor and the wealthy, people only buy things because they need to, and finally it helps the growth of the economy. To begin with, consumerism is good in many ways for example it has helped decrease …show more content…
The growth of the economy is essential to our country in so many ways, it helps the nation grow and become more powerful. So in definition the more that people buy and the more that people sell, the stronger our economy becomes. And this is happening today, thankfully because of consumerism the minimum wage has risen and people have more money than ever before. Lastly, I could agree with the supporters of the “Buy Nothing Day” because in a way we are buying way too much. Sometime more than what we could afford. We as human beings once we have something we want more of it. And that is the hard truth, and people must face the reality. But there should be a limit to what we spend. People need to control their desires. But it does not mean that the government needs to take away the people’s right to buy or the business right to sell on a specific day. In conclusion, consumerism is good and those are the reasons why. To support the growth of the economy, to decrease the large gap between all classes of people and people can finally buy all the things that they need. Even though this is all the good, it is understandable that there could be some little bad things but there is a fix and that does not include the “Buy Nothing