>>6848037>modern consumerism is more about experiences made. Traveling, foods, events, conventions, parties, etc etc.This sounds like bullshit.
It sounds more like people are WATCHING experiences on youtube, instead of actually going out. Just like so many people/kids are WATCHING video games being played, WATCHING toys being played with, and WATCHING people eat.
I'm in a popular tourist city and go to popular touristy shit, but talking to people in the city? A lot of people have never even left the city limits. My friends may go places, but it's not anymore or less than what their parents did.
I see so many people pretending to be minimalist, trying to look down their nose at generations before them for keeping their homes more simple, but they're as big as consumerwhores as anyone since Boomers. They save so much space because they're just licensing shit instead of actually owning products. So there's no mountains of VHS/cassette/8track tapes, but hard drives if they know what they're doing or just streaming services being used.
The biggest difference i see now is just that people are being smarter in what they buy. Snake oil is seen much less, but you still see holistic shit being sold to stupid soccermoms and older people. So there's less worthless junk not being used stacked up unused somewhere... but replaced by cheaper shit (see Pops)
Also, going to various conventions, i've noticed that it's easier to play video games now at them. Popular conventions, with empty spots and small lines, where years before there'd be large lines that i never bothered with. Now I can go right in and pick up the controller just walking by.
I'd swear that games were less popular than ever, if not for seeing sales being more than what it was when actually into gaming.
