I really appreciated the latest Vision Pioneers Blog post, which gives food-for-thought on where modern consumption is heading. Consumption excess is something you think more about when you take a pause from Western living and experience life elsewhere, where people’s problems go way deeper than the colour disharmony of one’s two-year-old living room or anything on a similar level.

Playing on social status and fears of rejection, fashion has astonishing effects on people’s appetite for consumption. Twenty years ago, a new sofa would be purchased to replace a piece well-worn. Today, it will be replaced when this season’s color goes out of fashion.

Miriam Garvi (PhD), The Vision Pioneers Blog, November 2008

Enjoy the read!