Serious Consumption = Slavery

[NEETzschean]

The more goods and services you consume, the more labour you must exchange in the form of money. Money in your possession amounts to tokens of labour performed. This means that for everything you buy, you (or someone connected to you) must be enslaved to pay for it.

The lower your costs, the less you have to be economically enslaved. If you can limit your costs to the bare essentials (food, drink, hygiene, accommodation) and then minimise them, you may not have to economically enslave yourself at all.

The desire for unnecessary material objects become chains that bind us, even more so because accruing too many possessions creates clutter to tidy up, makes it more likely to lose important possessions and exerts a psychological toll on us, both in the discomfort of untidiness and the feeling of being bound to obsolete items.

"The things you own, end up owning you."​

 

[maharsha]

There are people who drive cars not primarily because it's more convenient, but rather because they're embarrassed to tell a date that they don't have one and thus can't serve as a chauffeur. I prefer relative poverty to that lifestyle. I know someone who, when he told some girl that he can't pick her up because no car, she just cancelled everything. He ended up traveling to Eastern Europe and fucking prostitutes.