"Consumption Levels Must Drop By As Much As 95%..."

[sevenOP]

"...in countries with today's highest per-capita consumers".

Fat chance?

[Zacs-Master]

Consumption is a terrible disease. All but eradicated, I thought.

[Gromit]

;-D @ Zacs

[davebro]

Consumption (consumerism) stems from excess wealth so to reduce it drastically we will all need to become poor(er). That's counter to what almost everyone on the planet hopes & strives for!

[naomi24]

What are you going to do to help achieve that, sevenOP?

[Jackdaw33]

Wasn't consumption an old name for TB? I remember in the 50s people saying such things as, "She died of the galloping consumption".

[naomi24]

Yes, JD, I think it was. In books from the Victoria era someone is always dying with it.

[Sqad]

LOL it was indeed Jack, a disease withe treatment worse than the disease itself until the advent of Streptomycin in around 1949.

[Zacs-Master]

I don’t think anyone’s taking this seriously! ;-)

It’s a dead end proposition (or is it preposition), in any case, as it will probably lead to claims that anti consumerism is anti capitalist and that SevenOP should maybe go live in Russia, or be asked to cite a country where Marxism (or a close relative) works.

[Hopkirk]

From the title, I thought this thread was going to be about alcohol intake again.

[sevenOP]

"What are you going to do to help achieve that, sevenOP?"

Help achieve what, Naomi?

[naomi24]

A 95% drop in consumption levels. It’s your OP!

[Zacs-Master]

To be fair, SevenOP never stated whether he was in favour or against trying to reduce consumerism.

[davebro]

I think the OP was just pointing up the ridiculosity of there being any hope of achieving this.

[sevenOP]

"It’s your OP!"

Did you watch the video Naomi?

[barry1010]

If consumerism dropped by 95% how many businesses would go bust? Manufacturers, retailers, transporters, warehouses, suppliers.
Builders, construction companies, energy companies.
How much revenue would the government lose from VAT, corporation tax, income tax.
How much would the resulting benefits bill cost the government to support all the newly unemployed?
How many houses would be repossessed? Tenants evicted?

Keep spending, folks, businesses, employees and the government need you to.

[Zacs-Master]

(See ^^^ I told you so)

[naomi24]

No, i didn’t watch the video. I assumed your OP gave an accurate assessment of its conclusion.

[sevenOP]

Did you watch the video barry1010 ?

The 95% reduction is to energy consumption levels.

[barry1010]

Oh.

[Gromit]

I have to endure Daily Express links. But I persevere in order to give an informed reply.
Then there are people who happily give clueless replies without knowing what they are talking about, because they can’t be ar$ed to look at the link.
Why do you do that ?