Posts Tagged with "consumerism"

The defective consumer says: Eat your vegetables

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Everywhere you look there are commercials, influencing us and trying to convince us to buy the next best thing out there. Where this used to work on a massive scale it’s now getting more and more personal with even directly addressed ads showing up on your doormat and tons of spam in your mail. Not [...]

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Upgrading for the sake of upgrading: an ode to the old

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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How often do you see a commercial claiming a “new and improved” formula, or just something stating it’s “new” or “the latest”. Almost every month they design a new toothbrush that’s supposed to be an improvement over the old one. I still use a simple average toothbrush and it does what it’s supposed to. The [...]

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