There is a phenomenon in the world of business and in life that you are probably being influenced by without your knowledge. It’s called: BEING a consumer.
So, what is a consumer? The dictionary defines it as:
- A person who buys and uses up goods
- A living thing that must eat other organisms to obtain the energy necessary for life.
These definitions accurately depict what gets embodied when we take on the “being” of a consumer. In other words, when we take on the thoughts, actions, attitudes, and expectations that a consumer would take on.
It couldn't be more accurate: @SHA256man may have something to say about this.
Conclusion:
There is another way. Instead of being a consumer, you can take on being a contributor.
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There are ways around wannabe dictators. Others came before and others will come after. The defenses get better every time we go through one of these.
let's not ignore or forget the worst form of consumerism - vamp!rism; IYKYK:
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this is our primary responsibility, folks... looks like the collective is still failing miserably at it; absolutely pathetic, to say the least...
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on a global collective scale, consumption ultimately looks like war: destruction of lives & history - genocide, massacre, carpet bombing of old-world buildings;
on a smaller collective level, it's cannibalism, vandalism, murders, etc. oft disguised as modernization, lmao...;
(can someone please find the official music video to this shit: Ke$ha - Cannibal? i have seen it somewhere once...)
on an individual level, it's some sort of self-destructive behaviors (self-consumption), including suicide, munching & picking at ur own flesh (there are also reports of people eating their own limbs), as well as deliberately breaking valuable stuff u own;
to reverse all that, one has to
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the worse the conditions, the harder the work needs to be done, starting with onself; u start, and keep going!