Comment on Is there a "buy nothing" community on Lemmy? Or an anti-consumerism comm?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I feel like there’s three types of buy nothing:
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buy it for life - people looking to reduce consumerism by purchasing high quality, long lasting items that aren’t engineered to have limited lifespans. See lemmy.world/c/buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works
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second hand trading groups - people who want to reduce consumerism by creating vibrant second hand marketplaces and encouraging selling, trading, and donating of old goods. Lemmy is the wrong format for this, these groups tend to exist in geographically focused platforms like Facebook and Kijiji.
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true die-hard anti consumerists - want to never buy anything, including any items that are remotely consumable. Hard to find these communities as these people tend to head off grid, and / or self implode.
blarghly@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
Yeah, the problem with being anticonsumption is that you are basing your personality off of being opposed to something. And the only people who want to bond over being opposed to things are miserable people who like being miserable.
Anticonsumption? Great! But what are you going to do??? If you make your own things, then that’s what you do. If you barter or buy used, that’s something you do. If you do fun things that dont require material resources, then that’s something you do. But if what you “do” is sit at home and not consume things while complaining about other people consuming things on the internet, then you aren’t a noble crusader for the environment (or whatever) - you’re a hater.