“These algorithms are not necessarily programmed to monitor other algorithms in this way. But they learn that it’s the best thing to do to reach their goal of maximizing profit. This results in an unintended collusion of pricing, where prices are set within a very close boundary of each other. If one…”— Graeme McClean, fastcompany.com
“I hate stores. Stores are corny. It’s a fact. Who wants to be sold anything?”— Virgil Abloh, 2x4.org
“The express arrival of any object missing from your life with a minimum of effort could make it increasingly possible to live as though you already own everything”— Chenoe hart, reallifemag.com
“Instagram is democratising poetry. For gatekeepers, who work via western frameworks, it is clearly awful. But women of colour, LGBT+ and other marginalised people now have platforms to speak up, and that is not a literary journal. They, who want to make these platforms disappear, generalise the work…”— Nikita Gill, Surbhi Gupta, indianexpress.com
“Fuck off with your sofa units and green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let...let's evolve, let the chips fall where they may.”— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”— Chuck Pahlaniuk, Tyler Durden, Brad Pitt, amazon.com
“Materialism: buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people that don’t matter.”— Unknown, tcat.tc
“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“Corporate tycoons and financiers saw the potential. They bought – or took over – luxury companies and turned their sights on a new target audience: the middle market, that broad socioeconomic demographic. The idea, luxury executives explained, was to 'democratise' luxury, to make luxury 'accessible'…”— Dana Thomas, amazon.com
“The evolution of manufacturing and consumption has resulted in the intake of “400 percent more clothing today than we did 30 years ago.”— TFL, thefashionlaw.com
“Fast fashion is there for a reason: people want beautiful products in their price range. But we have to understand that cheap fashion is where other people end up paying for your stuff — the people who make the products and are paid less than what’s right.”— Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, medium.com
“YouTube won't demonetize Logan Paul & Twitter won't ban Trump because both are good for business. There's no good or bad in an Attention Economy - only more.”— Kevin McShane, twitter.com
“YouTube’s prank culture emphasizes shock value. Its deep culture of veneration among fans creates an insular, often accountability-proof bubble around its biggest stars. When those stars have earned large fortunes by creating content that violates the personal space and consent of other members of t…”— Aja Romano, vox.com
“Consumerism too is a virtual reality game. You gain points by acquiring new cars, buying expensive brands and taking vacations abroad, and if you have more points than everybody else, you tell yourself you won the game.”— Yuval Noah Harari, theguardian.com
“Don’t let our society’s focus on selling you happiness make you feel like there is something wrong with you.”— Melissa Broder, vice.com
“Because as easy as it is to say that any choice that we make as marginalized people is automatically feminist (because look! I’m making a decision for myself in a world that tries to make decisions for me!), the truth is that we don’t make choices in a vacuum. What that means for me is that while I…”— Melissa A. Fabello, everydayfeminism.com
“We say "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" when the focus should be on the fact that there is no ethical PRODUCTION under capitalism. Everything produced under the capitalist mode of production is a result of exploitation. The focus on consumption rather than production places more em…”— Mond Sankara, facebook.com
“it’s such a strange thing that we care about what we look like. like have you ever just considered that cavemen didn’t have mirrors or cameras or anything to see themselves up close with and they didn’t even care about what they looked like? we literally come from the universe, all of us, and we hav…”— sunbeambabygirl, sunbeambabygirl.tumblr.com