According to the people familiar with the investigation, Google got off the hook largely because, however the company might have harmed competitors, the F.T.C. found that its behavior, by and large, hadn't hurt competition or, by extension, consumers.
This is offered as an extension of "consumer choice".
For Houellebecq, the 1960s sexual revolution made sex a brutal extension of consumer gratification, whose losers are the old and the undesirable.
Also, with the extension of consumer theory by [4], utility no longer depends only on the quantity of goods but also on the characteristics of these goods.
In the field of biological reproduction, globalization - understood as the rapid growth of global capitalism - has brought in its wake an extension of consumer culture creating 'new regimes of consumption".
On the personal drones side, Gartner describes the tech as an "affordable extension of consumers' smartphones for taking photographs, selfies and for other entertainment options".
This extension helps consumers cut down on the food waste generated at household level, while at the same time reducing the impact, which these products' life cycle has on the environment.
We're extremely pleased to work with Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and Kia to bring iHeartRadio to their dashboards, as well as be available in BOSCH's deeper extension into consumer-facing functionality — providing even more listeners with the products and services they expect no matter where they are – and no matter where they drive.
They are responsible, and by extension Western consumers and governments are responsible for not pressuring them to take action in time to save the thousands of people who disappeared beneath that rubble.
