We consume many resources and products today by moving beyond basic needs to include luxury items and technological innovations in order to improve efficiency of  all kind of product that foes  from electrodoestics to  mobile phonees with GPS and MP3.
All these is because  throughout history we have always tried and investigated to find ways to make our lives a bit easier to live than they are in present time. However, increasingly, there are important issues around consumerism that need to be understood, such as know the border line between what is necessity from  what is luxury; how much  impacts  certain forms of consumption on the environment, on society, or even on individual; how do material values influence our relationships with other people: what is the impact on poorer nations and people on the demands of the wealthier nations , and so on.
What do you think about it? Could you answer any of these questions?


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Here's a new video which presents the consumerism as the ideology that controls the nowadays society.
As teh video says , the best mesure of the economy progress is the facte that we're buying more and more every year, so it is one of the most important things of teh world's economy.
There's a general belief in the society that thinks that the more qe consume the happier we'lll be.
So as a consequence of this belief , we all live in a world where everything is done to persuade us for buying it,such as  magazines, clothes, games,...
But as the population grows , and we go on consuming more and more , the ecosystem on which we depend are now close to colapse.   What do you think about it? Are we aware of all  the negatives consequences that the continuous consumerism of the modern society causes?

Here's a video that paraodies the most common aspects of the consumer behaviour.
The belief that with money everything can be bought, how wonderful is life if you have money, the fact that we never have enough and that we are always inventing new necessities as a excuse for buying something that we don't really need.
Do you think that this musical parody of consumer's behaviour reflects the reality of the fact of buying continuously?