I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.

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      1 year ago

      Probably because they’re were writing in English, where the meanings will be different. Which is kinda the point.

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      Because a) Germany doesn’t have this christian-magical-thinking the US have and b) it’s a term hardly anyone would use, but it’s indeed by far not comparable.