Consumerism has taken a major part of our culture. Consumerism is having more than what you need. It has an effect on consumers and producers by the way society reacts to all the products done. If the people like a pair of shoes and they’re in style that means that on the producer side they will be making money, but also make more of those shoes. As in the consumer’s side, they would be spending their money which can be beneficial to our economy and producers.
Everyone has a different experience with consumerism, there isn’t really only one way that we all are, my experince with consumerism has been according to others “excessive.” Yet I feel that it has a lot to do with the way you grew up, and your parents. I’m an only child, and I’m not saying that’s the reason why I am basically “materialistic” even though that did take a big role on the way I am now. Consumerism is a problem with our culture, just by how “it is news when the stock market loses two points” but it is not news that “an elderly homeless person dies of exposure.” In our society and with the newer generations we pay too much attention on what others have and what brand it is. For example one day in our theology class in freshman year Mr.Earls taught us how we think that we find our “happiness” through a new pair of shoes, drugs, and some even in sex. Yet all those things don’t actually lead to real happiness we are actually pushing aside our relationship with God “and keeps us from hearing the only invitation that will make us happy.”
Consumerism is a major problem in our culture and the way we pay so much attention to it and not to other subjects. We should be setting the example for the next generations about how religion, our family, people in the inside matter and not only for what they’re wearing and many other things are more important than the new iPhone is coming out. As much as how “Francis wants to get us thinking about what we should be thinking about” we should think about those things and actually practice what we would or are preaching.