Sentence examples for selfish consumers from inspiring English sources
If you have ever gone to a museum with a good artist you probably discovered that they don't worry so much about what art history books or wall labels tell them is right or wrong, because they're selfish consumers, freed to look by their own interests.
It is general and can be deployed in conjunction with any DSM schemes proposed in smart grids to make it incentive-compatible (i.e., selfish consumers find it in their self-interest to follow it).
This technology is general and can be deployed in conjunction with many DSM schemes proposed in smart grids based on utility functions so that selfish consumers find it in their self-interest to follow the DSM scheme.
For several years, I've wondered whether my aggressive pursuit of credit card rewards made me a selfish consumer.
The trick of the novel, its central comic turn, is to make Beard, the greedy, selfish uber-consumer, an accidental expert on anthropogenic climate change.
If you think our consumer culture and selfish habits have perverted the gift exchange, consider the ancients, whose giving habits make ours seem positively Amish.
In 1999 Microsoft China's general manager, Juliet Wu, quit and wrote a tell-all book in Chinese, saying the company was arrogant and selfish and an enemy of Chinese consumers because it wouldn't slash prices in the developing world.
Normally, he says, a sharp distinction is made between people's actions as citizens, in which they are expected to consider the well-being of society, and their actions as consumers, which are assumed to be selfish.
"It behooves retailers to make it easier for consumers to recycle if just for the purely selfish reason of capturing more business," said Pamela J. Gordon, president of Technology Forecasters.
