Week 10 Tute: Ethics of Consumption (Assessed) 1. Who is the ‘we’ in the question ‘Why do we consume so much?’ is Juliet Schor correct that ‘there is increasingly little that we do which is not a consumption experience’? And that we have become a culture of excessive consumption? Explain your answers.

The ‘we’ in the text mean that most of the Americans who possess a basic normal life, stable income and the large middle classes whose standard of living has risen so dramatically over this century. The author is correct that there is gradually little that we do which is not a consumption experience. Material abundance has only intensified in recent years, with the booming economy of the 1990s and early 21st century. People nowadays had become a culture of excessive consumption. The amount of vehicles per person has increased, as has the size and luxuriousness of those vehicles. Americans use more on cosmetics product every year than the extra spending needed to bring worldwide access to basic education for all children in the developing world.

2. Explain why Schor believes that ‘more leisured, less consumerist lifestyles are structurally blocked’. Why can’t people simply choose to work less and enjoy more free time? Do you agree that working long hours encourages people to consume more?

In the event that there is not an openly working business sector in hours and managers inhibits hours’ reductions, then there is no sense in which one can depict the amount of utilization as ideal. The statement ‘more leisured, less consumerist lifestyles are structurally blocked’, the labor market been offered only ‘the long hours, high-income choice, it’s barely unexpected that people tend to do lots of consuming. I agree with working more would encourages people to consume more because they think that the money that they spent is like compensate their toil and they