The action that businesses usually perform when greed takes over. Generally, they release products with the interest of themselves: the producers, rather than the interest of buyers: the consumers. This includes selling/reselling things at prices higher than their normal rates and previous rates, making items a limited quantity to increase the demand, and presenting, or adding unnecessary adjustments in order to boost advertisement.
"Nintendo's Loftwing Amiibo is one of the most Anti-Consumerism moves the company made. They proved that they only cared about puncturing a hole in your pocket."
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by John Park June 2, 2004
Get the anti-consumerism mug.The contemporary condition where consumerism persists—indeed, intensifies—even as the material conditions that once supported it collapse. Workers on starvation wages, unable to afford housing or healthcare, are nevertheless saturated with consumerist ideology and compelled to participate in markets for goods that are increasingly shoddy, deceptive, and overpriced. Precarized consumerism encompasses the "false foods" that taste like chocolate but contain none, the fast fashion that disintegrates after three washes, the electronics designed to fail, and the constant pressure to consume despite having nothing. It's consumerism for people who can't afford to be consumers—a treadmill of desire running on empty, powered by debt, desperation, and the hollow promise that the next purchase will finally deliver the satisfaction that never comes.
Example: "She spent her entire weekly wage on 'chocolate-flavored' candy bars that contained zero cocoa, a perfect specimen of Precarized Consumerism—consuming the sign of consumption without any of its substance."
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James totally consumerized himself during a spending spree at the mall, buying an iPhone AND 3 pairs of Gap jeans.
by philipacamaniac February 27, 2008
Get the consumerize mug.A caste in the New World Order in which Celebutantes (people famous for being famous) decide what is worthy of coolness, a commodity that is then traded for the cool product or service through the coin-of-the-realm (be it dollars, pounds sterling, euros, yen, etc.). The Consumerista is a vital but lower ranking member of society, as they are not famous and therefore do not matter except as nodes on the global fiscal economy. The Consumerista buys what the Celebutante thinks is worthy of buying, though the actual act of buying is important in a quasi-religious sense to the consumerista but not to the celebutante, who are too busy living as royalty has always lived: pampered and overindulged. Occasionally, to prevent a revolutionary act, a common "coming together" of the consumerista and their idols is staged to benefit starving children in nations that are "slave states" in all but name, receiving microfinancing loans to dig holes for water and once in a great while given solar powered computers "for educational purposes" by The Gate, which are usually sold for rice to eat.
"Courtney is such a good little consumerista. She read that the Kardashians use Heinz Ketchup just like the poor, and she's switched brands, blogged about the experience, and bought some stock in Heinz. She even donated a case to the South Africans--though they sent it back with a note saying they preferred Hunts."
by GPurvis November 4, 2013
Get the Consumerista mug.Microsoft helped to consumerize home computers, with the release of Microsoft Windows; a simple, user friendly operating system.
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