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Yeah consumerism can be bad. But not everyone is into weaving baskets from grass.
I do agree a little though, someone with 500 funko pops isn't doing the environment (or the slaves in China that made them) any favors. But if they enjoy it, do it. 1 billionaires jet flight destroys more than 1 of us ever could in an entire lifetime if we bought 20 funkos a day. Not to mention the running cost of their 10 homes and yachts.
That's just it, though. When people are convinced that any kind of Arts & Crafts activity is tedious and boring, the reflexively avoid it. And the end result is a reinforced cycle of Shop Therapy, where people want new things in their lives but are too insecure about their own skills or intimidated by the process of artistic creation. So they just buy someone else's work product. Or some machine's work product. Or some AI's work product.
In my experience, people who are hording collectibles aren't happy so much as they are remembering a time when they were happy and struggling to recreate that experience.
Idk mixing and recording music is tedious and boring sometimes and I still do it. I paint furniture. I repair cars. The truth of the matter is all of those things involve buying something to do the job. Or fixing your house. Thats just how the world is. You aren't gonna find shingles and 2x4s and nails out in the woods to gather.
I'm definitely one of those, except my "collectibles " all serve a function. I don't get things that just sit. If it is sittiitng, I sell it (like my old Atari I never used anymore).
I could probably be better about buying things, but the things I buy enable me to do more. I'm a project person. And, I usually buy used if I ever can.
Definitely better than folks buying endless plastic un repairable junk on amazon that they dont need at all.
Absolutely.