consumerism

Example Sentences

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But investing and saving in a slow and steady manner requires human qualities that are always easy to sustain: patience, stamina, a work/life balance and resisting the call of wild consumerism.

From MarketWatch

Since they formed in 2019, the artists have gained an international reputation for employing the slick tropes of marketing and fashion to playfully skewer consumerism and supply-chain systems.

From The Wall Street Journal

But factories and businesses in the mountainous district say the age-old tradition is struggling against weak consumerism, with even the approaching Lunar New Year failing to boost sales.

From Barron's

Xi has indicated over the years that he has deep-rooted philosophical objections to Western-style consumerism, seeing it as wasteful.

From The Wall Street Journal

Zombies doubling as a metaphor for consumerism or groupthink?

From Salon