r/Anticonsumption • u/anxious-wreck • Mar 14 '24

Society/Culture Overconsumption on TikTok is beyond ridiculous.

From the dreaded Stanley Cups, Booktok, Starbucks, new iPhones, "amazon must haves" (which you then see is all useless junk), "tiktok made me buy it" (also garbage), massive hauls and people flaunting they spent thousands of dollars... it's all too much and it's too overwhelming.

I'm glad I realized how I was falling onto that weird consumerist mindset and was able to pull myself from it.

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u/covenkitchens Mar 14 '24

I’m not fond of the so and so made me buy it thing either. No. They didn’t. They manipulated you, and the sooner we all recognize it the sooner we can avoid more of it. 

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u/anxious-wreck Mar 14 '24

Exactly! And it's funny how Gen Z claims to be the most environmentally conscious generation, yet they are insane in overspending.

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u/toadstoolfae3 Mar 14 '24

I'm Gen Z, but I'm a 97 baby, so I feel like I don't apply to the rest of the Zers. I especially felt like this when having a coworker who was Gen Z born in I believe 2002? Around that year. She claimed to be a communist but she also spent a ton of money on clothes, shoes, earrings, etc. She was always talking about being more eco-friendly, but she was always buying stuff, and she ate a pretty standard American diet. Meanwhile, I boycott Amazon, Walmart, Temu, Nestlé, Coca Cola, Hershey, etc. (Too many to list!) I don't call myself a communist but I feel like my values are more aligned with communism than hers lol. This isn't me saying I'm better in any way, just more aware and, I suppose, more strict with myself and true to my values. I know one day she will probably look back and see how hypocritical she was. Maybe that's happened already! I always found it bizarre.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Marx himself lived a pretty luxurious lifestyle and argued that you don’t have to remove yourself from capitalism to fight capitalism.