American culture, and I'm not talking about cultural objects like Burgers, Banjos, Straw hats, or Seersucker suits or cultural Music like Country, Rap or Jazz. Im talking about behavioral culture like Hyper consumerism, Hyper materialism, American exceptionalism, or the insane Police and Military culture that's normalized. Like the last two could be fixed if the left plays its cards right but the consumerism and Materialism thing I think could be permanently bricked into the American brain. I live in America and I will always remember this time when ii was a kid and my family was on our way back from a road trip and we stopped at a McDonalds that was around an hour away from our and my little brother was upset that my Dad forgot to order a Root-Beer so he said "Don't worry we will pass like 15 other McDonald on the way home." And he said that like it was normal. I don't even think that in countries like Europe you can just walk into a Walmart and get like 47 different flavors of Oreos, Like I don't think that its inherently bad but there is no way that we get the stuff to make those Oreos without exploiting the labor of Sugar farmers in or from Guatemala or something, if it was self reliant then its fine but America doesn't manufacture anything we use anymore, Our entire economy is just 5 AI companies shuffling money between themselves. I will always remember that time that Trump was doing in interview about the Tariffs and he said "Well maybe Girls in America can have two dolls instead of thirty dolls" and although I hate Trump and his hostility to China he Isn't wrong about how kids don't need to have 30 of the same dolls to survive, and of course that is why the liberal media attacked him for saying that more then the stuff that deserves condemnation.
12 posts and 1 image reply omitted.>>2644138Capital-brained individual would say reducing domestic demand is impossible in capitalist USA (especially for US services and industry (kitchen appliances, software, vehicles, airplanes, oil, etc.)). Since so much of the consumption of American goods and services is domestic. And that a lot of the reason lower-quality commodities are common on the market is because many Americans can't afford better. Even if you reduced consumption for only foreign goods one would expect this to not benefit the global economy, or individuals looking for affordable products. This is sort of a straw man though.
>>2644285Spanish, Portuguese, Genoan, Venetian, and Dutch empires say hi
They really do love consooming, to the point where the average North American youth has no conception of savings. They have money, they go to the mall or the online catalog and buy some random trending shit that they'll stop using next month. I have friends who work part time jobs and make much more income than I do(in addition to money from parents) just to blow all the money they made in the same week - restaurants, expensive-brand shoes and clothes, starbucks or bubble tea. And of course vapes or some other drug. And then they wonder why they're broke and have less than $100 left. Oh well, maybe the next generation will change when this one has to raise their children poor.
>>2644138i also find investing culture peculiary american especially at a young age. i remember a friend of mine who is half american telling me he got shares for his birthday. and his sister went on a tour of the boeing factory and in the gift shop she decided to buy some boeing shares. i've heard a similar story many times about kids getting shares certificates for their birthdays.