A Brief History of Consumer Culture

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A Brief History of Consumer Culture

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Collapse@lemm.eeEnglish · 4 months ago

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

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