consumerist

As bad as The Consumerist is, they did teach me what the phrase 'executive customer care' meant.

A consumerist society is one where having the appearance of something is more important than the actual something.

Ripoff Reports (or other such sites, Consumerist is another) is a good place to check up on businesses.

This is just an extension and a centralization of technology that in the was is used to mould people's consumerist behaviour by rating their purchasing habits and credit.

That, combined with a rabid consumerist mentality is rapidly leading us down a rode of polluted resource-exhaustion.

This is a world that has become increasingly characterised by a hedonistic culture of consumerist excess.

I doubt it - Consumerist is very good at manufacturing outrage, even for minor, accidental transgressions.

Older public spaces and other third places were less consumerist though.

>Ripoff Reports (or other such sites, Consumerist is another) is a good place to check up on businesses.

Vox is non-technical, consumerist trash.

It wasn't because of rich parents or a machiavellian scheme, it was because of a deep anti-consumerist philosophy that extends to everything from not owning a smart phone to riding a bike to buy groceries.

I have my deep doubts about this prospect and I believe that at least that having a knowledge based economy doesn't need all this amount of people on Earth to advance and that the transition from a consumerist led mass market to a non consumerist small one is going to be very painful if we haven't addressed the structural problems in the global economy esp.

The "Society of the Spectacle" is an awful term, but it basically means a consumerist society.

Here's an interesting quote: "[...] this extended adolescence has been cannily co-opted by market forces, who have identified this relatively new demographic as an incredibly lucrative wellspring of consumerist potential.

The notion of pushing this a bit further by thinking "frameworks" is very much worthwhile and maybe the "correction" to an ever more "consumerist" internet.

In particular, Raymond Malewitz has a book of examples of "creative misuse" in recent American lit.[1] Some of his examples (Fight Club, No Country for Old Men) are noted for their anti-capitalist or anti-consumerist slant, while others (Apollo 13, McGuyver) have more of a quasi-military aspect to them.

Exactly the reason I stopped reading the Consumerist.