Wants vs Needs
What is Consumer Culture? According to Google, Consumer Culture is a form of capitalism in which the economy is focused on the selling of consumer goods and the spending of consumer money. In society nowadays, everyone just focuses on trends and are not accepting the fact that their current lifestyle is much better compared to other people living in the third world countries. Every business will have the ability to introduce new merchandises on to the market such as designer’s bags, name brand apparel, shoes, and electronic devices every month routinely seeking for vulnerable people to buy their products through advertisements. As a result, the demand for fashion and technology had grown and eventually had become a trend. Personally I think consumer culture is very hazardous and it will not only destroy Americans financially, but psychologically as well. Buying new gadgets is exciting but there should be a difference between a need than compared to a want.
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Americans who accumulate debts by their irresponsible behaviors will tend to stress out when they know it is too late. Stress damages the human brain tremendously and medical attention is required. According to Nadine Kazlow, she asserts that people who has debt has higher chance to get diagnose with depression “Debt can make you feel helpless, hopeless, and low on self-esteem — and these are all symptoms and risk factors for depression”.
In society today, Americans always want things that are in trend. People who had developed shopping addictions from their irresponsible decisions do not have the right to blame anyone, but to blame themselves. All of these problems can be prevented if they check their credit balance or be more hesitant when it comes to shopping in the future. Shopping for new clothes and shoes in the department stores is indeed fun, but there should be a limit to what is being
What is Consumer Culture? According to Google, Consumer Culture is a form of capitalism in which the economy is focused on the selling of consumer goods and the spending of consumer money. In society nowadays, everyone just focuses on trends and are not accepting the fact that their current lifestyle is much better compared to other people living in the third world countries. Every business will have the ability to introduce new merchandises on to the market such as designer’s bags, name brand apparel, shoes, and electronic devices every month routinely seeking for vulnerable people to buy their products through advertisements. As a result, the demand for fashion and technology had grown and eventually had become a trend. Personally I think consumer culture is very hazardous and it will not only destroy Americans financially, but psychologically as well. Buying new gadgets is exciting but there should be a difference between a need than compared to a want.
Spending money …show more content…
Americans who accumulate debts by their irresponsible behaviors will tend to stress out when they know it is too late. Stress damages the human brain tremendously and medical attention is required. According to Nadine Kazlow, she asserts that people who has debt has higher chance to get diagnose with depression “Debt can make you feel helpless, hopeless, and low on self-esteem — and these are all symptoms and risk factors for depression”.
In society today, Americans always want things that are in trend. People who had developed shopping addictions from their irresponsible decisions do not have the right to blame anyone, but to blame themselves. All of these problems can be prevented if they check their credit balance or be more hesitant when it comes to shopping in the future. Shopping for new clothes and shoes in the department stores is indeed fun, but there should be a limit to what is being