Steps. 1  1. Figure out how bad it really is. Take the quiz below, adding up every time you answered yes. 2  2. Do not feel bad about not reading the digital avalanche of email, blog posts, or web content. You'll never be caught up and that's okay. 3  3. Don't read everything word for word.
Consumerism as a social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.ance Packard worked to change the meaning of the term consumerism from a positive word about consumer practices to a negative word meaning excessive materialism and waste. The ads for his 1960 book The Waste Makers prominently featured the word consumerism in a negative way.
More example sentences. 1  As a consequence, this prevalence of mass marketing and consumerism has led to a selfish, egocentric culture where one's own apparent needs and desires come first at the exclusion of the needs of others. 2  I don't want to sound self centered of egocentric, but I was the reason he was happy.