Materialism versus pro social
Anders Berthelsen
Consumerism and pro social is two opposites, who should meet each other.
Consumerism is the new black. Therefore I have found two articles, which I will talk on the basic of. The consumerism is coming in the beginning of the 20th century, where everything went viral and digital. The awareness of being able to show your value in material goods explored and has not landed yet. The fact we have accepted the sellers advantage of supply and demand is alarming.
I will explain the good and bad sides of consumerism with the aid of the two articles. On the one side we have, ‘’Living with less. A lot less,’’ written by Graham Hill and on the other side we have, ‘’Feeling sad? Go shopping because it really …show more content…
He is a Canadian, who sold his website and then he got trapped by the consumerism. He needed to get everything, even a personal shopper, so he did not have to find his own furniture. He later admit, that it have taken over his life and therefore he now live in a small apartment, where he feels happier than ever.
The second article, that are pro-consumerism, is written by the Daily Mail in the light of a search by psychologists, who are telling, that shopping makes people happier.
Apart from that I will also involve two small videos about the consequences and how we solve the environment …show more content…
This question I will try to answer with the knowledge I have gotten from the articles and the videos.
If you want to join the race about being the best version of yourself, then you will love the information that Daily Mail Reporter reported in June 2011. Some psychologists claimed, that shopping helped on the mood. More shopping is equal to a happier mood. As they call it in the article it is a retail therapy. As they wrote, ‘’Retail therapy purchases were overwhelmingly beneficial, leading to mood boost and no regret or guilt.’’ This sounds amazing, but if you are critical about this, than you most likely are more agree with Graham Hill. He wrote, ‘’there isn’t any indication that any of these things makes anyone any happier; in fact it seems the reverse may be true.’’ The two writers are disagree on this point, but there is a old phrase, which is sustaining Graham Hills quotation, ‘’money cannot buy happiness.’’
If you want to believe the phrase more than the psychologists from Daily Mail, then you think, that the consumerism has taken over the common
Anders Berthelsen
Consumerism and pro social is two opposites, who should meet each other.
Consumerism is the new black. Therefore I have found two articles, which I will talk on the basic of. The consumerism is coming in the beginning of the 20th century, where everything went viral and digital. The awareness of being able to show your value in material goods explored and has not landed yet. The fact we have accepted the sellers advantage of supply and demand is alarming.
I will explain the good and bad sides of consumerism with the aid of the two articles. On the one side we have, ‘’Living with less. A lot less,’’ written by Graham Hill and on the other side we have, ‘’Feeling sad? Go shopping because it really …show more content…
He is a Canadian, who sold his website and then he got trapped by the consumerism. He needed to get everything, even a personal shopper, so he did not have to find his own furniture. He later admit, that it have taken over his life and therefore he now live in a small apartment, where he feels happier than ever.
The second article, that are pro-consumerism, is written by the Daily Mail in the light of a search by psychologists, who are telling, that shopping makes people happier.
Apart from that I will also involve two small videos about the consequences and how we solve the environment …show more content…
This question I will try to answer with the knowledge I have gotten from the articles and the videos.
If you want to join the race about being the best version of yourself, then you will love the information that Daily Mail Reporter reported in June 2011. Some psychologists claimed, that shopping helped on the mood. More shopping is equal to a happier mood. As they call it in the article it is a retail therapy. As they wrote, ‘’Retail therapy purchases were overwhelmingly beneficial, leading to mood boost and no regret or guilt.’’ This sounds amazing, but if you are critical about this, than you most likely are more agree with Graham Hill. He wrote, ‘’there isn’t any indication that any of these things makes anyone any happier; in fact it seems the reverse may be true.’’ The two writers are disagree on this point, but there is a old phrase, which is sustaining Graham Hills quotation, ‘’money cannot buy happiness.’’
If you want to believe the phrase more than the psychologists from Daily Mail, then you think, that the consumerism has taken over the common