MrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth - Economics as if People mattered@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months ago‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-link‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.comMrMakabar@slrpnk.netM to Degrowth - Economics as if People mattered@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarefubarx@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIt warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoit comes at a social cost though. i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs. Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.
It warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.
it comes at a social cost though.
i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs.
Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.