NO ONE epitomises China's boisterous embrace of modern consumerism better than Huang Guangyu, who transformed a tiny street stall in Beijing into a sprawling network of 1,350 stores.
But I can't help but ask myself, is consumerism getting the better of me when it comes to gift giving?
Given the billions spent on marketing "green" products and milking the taxpayer for Solyndra-like green energy subsidies, one might think Cornell would do better than "Environmental Issues Affecting Real Estate Investments" and "Sustainable Consumerism: The Retail Studio".
For better or worse, this is driving consumerism toward a simplified operating system void of traditional computing elements.
The values that the rulers of the corporate states of America share are what got us into this mess: free markets, maximum profits, economic inequality, individual wealth over social/environmental costs, endless consumerism, and bigger is better.
"Facts" are consumerism's best cover-up.
In the early '80s Pippa published her most well known work, Philip Garner's Better Living Catalog, a humorous commentary on consumerism.
For a punk, it's always better to remake something old than support consumerism and buy something new.
I wonder if online shopping has produced its own form of rabid consumerism, that endless search for a better price elsewhere.
If the entire Western World is not using these within the next five years, logic has nothing to do with consumerism and that whole "Build a better mousetrap" adage is complete horse shit.
