Problem
Unnecessary personal consumption
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Excessive luxuryUnnecessary luxury
Wasteful personal consumption
Unsustainable personal consumption
Artificial needs
Nature:
Once bodily wants are satisfied and efficiency is maximized any meeting of further desires is a luxury. The consumption of luxuries has economic, social and ethical importance. Expenditure on superfluities has a tendency toward relaxation of concentrated effort. In extreme cases it weakens moral fibre and opens the way to dangerous excesses. It not only tends to injure the person whose life is luxurious but acts on others by force of example. Once a group of people have become accustomed to an unnecessary luxury, it cannot be withdrawn except by violence. Broader Problems:
ExcessConsumerismPersonal wealthUnethical consumption practicesProduction serving false consumption needs Narrower Problems:
Over-eatingUnnecessary gadgetsConsumption of alcoholDecreasing household sizeProliferation of second homesExcessive proportion of income spent on food Related Problems:
Negative effect of glamourUncoordinated expression of needs Aggravates:
Living aloneExtravagant life styleIncreased demand for meat and egg productsConstruction of inappropriate tourist resort complexes Strategies:
Ensuring sustainable personal consumption References:
Clark, Eric: The Want Makers: lifting the lid of the world advertising industry: how they make you buy Subject(s):
Amenities → Living conditionsAmenities → Consumption
Development → Sustainable development
Value Redistribution → Value redistribution
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST