#anti-consumerism

[kropotkindersurprise]

2022 - A group of activists use parkour to turn off useless energy wasting shop signs in Montpellier, France. [video]

[miamaimania]

"Man Cutting Pill" (1972) ⊕ Superstudio — conceptual photograph

[bitchesgetriches]

The Bitches Get Riches Anti-Consumerist Gift Guide

Gift shopping can be stressful and financially draining because of hyped-up mass commercialization and endless push to consume.

If you’ve been paying attention to our RADICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE WAR CRIES, you won’t be surprised to hear that we’re pretty conflicted about holiday gift-giving in general. Specifically, our gripe is with the hyped-up mass commercialization and the endless push to consume.

Tokens and gestures of kindness give us a seasonal thrill—I mean, we’re not totally dead inside! Merely partially! But when you hate consumerism, it can be really hard to participate in the good parts of the tradition without feeling like you’ve lost touch with your own values.

Anti-consumerism is a lake fed by many rivers. Mindless consumption is bad for people, bad for the planet, bad for your wallet, and rote and impersonal. Some people care a lot about one or two of those aspects more strongly than others. If only there were some kind of helpful Venn diagram that broke down anti-consumerist attitudes about gift giving…

Oh wait! Silly me, I’m a graphic designer! I’m paid to eat data and shit out Venn diagrams!

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[dj-of-the-coven]

There is a genuine problem right now in online spaces of people refusing to respect the history of a subculture, as if every single person who's ever been goth or punk or emo before the invention of tiktok was wrong and now the correct way to be those things is by doing nothing to change your lifestyle, appearance, or ideals, but instead by repeating validating mantras to yourself: e.g., goth is what ever you want it to be; punk is whatever you, personally, already do, and requires nothing but a can-do attitude; emo is the same thing as being sad. I believe this phenomenon comes from hyper-capitalist and consumerist ideals, and it's hard to combat because it's often very left-leaning people who are interested in these alternative subcultures. the underlying capitalism of it all becomes invisible to the self-described anti-capitalist. simply being anti-capitalist is not enough to prevent oneself from a mindset of consumerism--the proof is in the repeated notion of "Don't change; just be. Don't make; just buy."

Passive consumption is not often recognized as consumerism because there's no money changing hands, but in my opinion, reducing the membership of real-life subcultures with historical bases in music, fashion, and stigmatized emotions to something which can be entered by anyone, with no significant lifestyle change, is... perhaps not doing any favors to the people of that subculture. Just a thought.

[lost-on-the-highway]

Anti-consumerist tip of the day

Fun fact: most big brands do marketing surveys on sites that you can get paid to do.

Fun fact #2: no-one, absolutely no-one, is stopping you from setting up a fake e-mail and filling in those surveys with absolutely bullshit responses. You get paid a couple of bucks per survey, slightly corrupt the data sets of big companies that are ruining our lives, and keep your information safe. It's a win-win.

Tip: Your answers can be bullshit but they have to be consistent bullshit, otherwise you might get banned. Make a note of what your fake alter ego's income is etc. The site I found that pays the most is Prime Opinion.

[tigerbears]

DO YOU... 1: CARE ABOUT VIDEO GAME PRESERVATION? 2: OWN A COPY OF "THE CREW"?

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO!

You might now that The Crew's servers are going to be shut down in April, but this guy is planning to launch an international campaign to prevent the game's shutdown, thus preventing the shutdown of all video games that rely on a central server.

"Oh, but you can't expect the company to run the servers forever."

Your right, that's not what Ross is arguing for. He's arguing that Ubisoft (and any other company that cant run the servers forever) either patch the game so it can run offline/run servers locally, or release the server software.

Guess how much you can help depends on which country you live in

(For example, if you bought the game in the US your very likely f@#ked. Ross explains the only thing you can do is contact the FTC, but if that doesn't work the only other way to stop this practice is an act of congress because the law is f@#ked and the company can do almost anything as long as the EULA says it. If the EULA says you don't own the game, then legally you don't own the game.)

However, if you live anywhere else (like France, Australia, or the EU) you have a better chance because you have rights.

"But I don't care about The Crew."

This isn't about just The Crew. If this campaign is successful, then it could set a president to save all online only games in the future.

"But I don't own The Crew."

Then reblog this post so someone who does can read it.

[raffaellopalandri]

Well Being Without Illusion: Learning to Live Without Promises of Arrival

Well being without illusion begins with a refusal, not a negation of joy or meaning, but a refusal to accept the metaphysics of arrival that saturates contemporary life. The promise of arrival is the central narcotic of late capitalist civilisation. It organises desire, structures labour, justifies exhaustion, and renders suffering tolerable by endlessly deferring fulfilment into an imagined…

[borderlands2]

whoever has ownership of Keith Haring's estate, please stop selling out. you have enough money by now, and you are utterly demolishing his memory.