>>2011060>if you want to be real autistic about it your post is wrong twofold, as in addition to thw above a consumer good that is merely accumulated isn't being consumed.language is more complicated than that. You can eat a leaf from a tree and you have consumed it but that is not what 'consumerism' means. Likewise if you buy a hundred funko pops and do not use them for anything or eat them you are still engaging in a particularly core type of consumerism.
It's true that buying non tangible goods and services is technically an aspect of 'consumerism' but really what it means in modern terms is when you obsess over buying objects, get a dopamine hit from buying stuff, buy stuff beyond your needs and beyond any real purpose, derive your self worth from what you own, feel the need to buy things to fit in to certain groups, and invest a lot of your time into making 'correct' purchasing decisions, going as far as to consider buying those things as your hobby, especially when your obsession over the object eclipses the thing which the object is supposedly for (audiophiles vs people who like listening to music for example) all this to a pathetic extent. It's that patheticness which is a core aspect of 'consumerism' (now almost exclusively used negatively). Certain services might sometimes fit that definition such as researching and banging hookers.
In /n/ terms if you spend more time thinking about buying bike stuff than working on bikes with your hands or riding bikes then that is consumerism.
