Consumption Quote by Ivan Illich

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

— Ivan Illich

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

— Christopher Lasch

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the…

— Henry Ford

There were moments when we could not afford to have three meals a day. My mother would lurch from one low-wage job to the…

— Ritchie Torres

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 accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

“If one looks at modern society, it is obvious that in order to live, the great majority of people are forced to sell their…

— Gilles Dauvé

“The point of this, as Marx explains, is to show that according to classical economics the worker becomes a commodity, the production of which…

— Peter Singer

“In the wake of primitive accumulation, the wage relationship became a seemingly voluntary affair. Workers needed employment and employers wanted workers. In reality, of…

— Michael Perelman

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the…

— Benjamin Harrison