Good Essay About The Manipulation Of Consumerism

The United States is using the world’s resources at an alarming rate without regard for the consequences, and the harm it causes people. The corporations seem to have developed a cycle in which the territories and people in them are forced to work for, and reinforce the corporations that are doing the original damage. This is alarming because corporations are now more powerful than governments, and this makes it difficult to change the damage they are doing. It is hard to consider why things that are mass produced are so cheap, but seeing all of the contributing factors makes the price seem exploitive. This country has been urged toward buying so that materialism is a part of our identity, and it is shocking that the government has manipulated people into fulfilling what they think our purpose should be; spending money. What is worse is the way new products are designed to be thrown away or replaced quickly, and encourages people to constantly upgrade. It is suggestive that since consumerism has increased people’s happiness has decreased. Not only do people not have time to enjoy their things, but constant advertisements make people less satisfied with what they have, and always wanting more. Although people in the U.S. have more stuff than ever before they have less leisure time, and most of it is spent shopping or being bombarded with advertisements. This means that people are working only to have stuff that they can never really appreciate, and it is a vicious cycle of wanting and working.