alt Hacker NewsLet's continue:
- Do you really need to keep your children in school or contribute to their higher education, when you can just let them roam free on the streets or better yet, work down at the factory and earn their keep?
- Do you really need children at all, when an AI digital pet might satisfy that need much more economically?
- Do you really need expensive dental crown implants or dentures, when you can whittle yourself some chompers out of beechwood and call it a shuccshesh?
- Do you really need to own a home in a neighbourhood that is safe and close enough to your place of employment, when you can rent in a rough area of town and spend hours commuting on public transport?
I don't think any of those fall under the umbrella of consumerism. So no, that's not a continuation of my list at all.
Looking after your health or taking proper care of your kids is really not in the same category as spending less on veblen goods.
(I'm noticing that people are getting very different messages from this game.)