Consumerism Quote by Christopher Lasch

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

— Philipp Meyer

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

— David Rolf

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

— Christopher Lasch

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single…

— Christopher Lasch

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place

— Ivan Illich

The economics of life is against the family.

— Ruby Dee

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive…

— Christopher Lasch

Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which,…

— Ludwig von Mises

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism,…

— Margaret Halsey

“The best available apples-to-apples comparison of inflation-adjusted earnings shows what the typical fully employed man earned back in the 1970s and what that same…

— Elizabeth Warren

I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in diners and…

— Keith Ellison

Numerous studies have shown income inequality growing since the late 1970s. Real earnings have fallen for many families, with globalization, the decline of unions…

— Annie Lowrey