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.
Spot on, depending on context it takes on slightly different meanings. I feel like its use to call out corporate pandering in order to paint themselves in a good/progressive way to the rest of the public eye, solely because they realized it would artificially boost their bottom line, is justified