Consumer Capitalism Quotes
- According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
- You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully… — Madeleine Bunting
- Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most… — James Surowiecki
- The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace