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Materialism refers to how a person or group chooses to spend their resources, particularly money and time. Literally, a materialist is a person for whom collecting material goods is an important priority. In common use, the word more specifically refers to a person who primarily pursues wealth and luxury. Sometimes such a person displays conspicuous consumption. Factors of production are resources used in the production of goods and services in economics. ...
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Conspicuous consumption is a term introduced by the American economist Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). ...
Many believe that a "considered" and "realistic" form of materialism leads to economic behaviors supporting a sustainable community. For example, thrift shops and garage sales permit moderate materialism with little environmental impact. Sustainable - the ability to maintain into perpetuity. ...
A charity shop (UK), thrift store (US) or op shop (Australia/NZ, from opportunity shop) is a retail establishment operated by a charitable organization for the purpose of fundraising. ...
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Opposition
Opposition to economic materialism comes from two sources, religion and social activism. Many religions oppose materialism because of the belief that it interferes with spirituality and the divine, or that it leads to an immoral lifestyle. Some social activists believe that materialism is often a source of societal ills such as war, crime, poverty, oppression and genocide. A main concern is that materialism is unable to offer a proper raison d'être for human existence. Social activists are people who act as the conscience and voice of many individuals within a society. ...
Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ...
Divinity has a number of related uses in the field of religious belief and study. ...
Morality is a complex of principles based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. ...
The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. ...
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Oppression is the negative outcome experienced by people targeted by the arbitrary and cruel exercise of power in a society or social group. ...
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing...
“Young people see artifacts as providing a means of expressing individual and group identities” (Taylor, 2000, 3). // Computer programming In object-oriented programming, object identity is a mechanism for distinguishing different objects from each other. ...
“They are the ones most susceptible to advertising and promotion and most interested in new products” (Goldberg, 2003, 285). (See novelty and neophilia.) Look up novelty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Neophilia is defined as a love of novelty and new things. ...
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon" - Jesus Christ (Matthew 6:24) God is the deity believed by monotheists to be the supreme reality. ...
Mammon is used in the New Testament to describe material wealth or avarice. ...
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See also Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ...
Cultural Creatives is a term coined by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson to describe a large segment in Western society that has recently developed beyond the standard paradigm of Modernists versus Traditionalists or Conservatists. ...
Post materialism is an economic philosophy focussing on quality of life and enviornmental sustainability over income and material possessions. ...
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Tim Kasser is an American psychologist and book author known for his work on materialism and well-being. ...
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