What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e. g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.


Chapter 6, The Public Household, p. 274 - The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)


What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display...

What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display...

What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display...

What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display...