Contemporary overconsumption is coerced, mirroring the unfreedom of labor.
Evidence
Freedom is based on deviation: luxuriance, getting away from necessity (Notwendigkeit). Luxury transcends the intention of averting need (die Not zu wenden). But today, consumption is co-opting even luxury. Excessive consumption amounts to unfreedom: compulsion corresponding to the unfreedom of labour. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 117
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Free-market labor is unfreedom whose abolition could liberate human autonomy — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 108; Even free labor under capitalism is subject to economic compulsion to sell labor-power. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 599; Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 7 (+3 more)
Related
- Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. (similarity 0.82)
- Free-market labor is unfreedom whose abolition could liberate human autonomy (similarity 0.81)
- Consumption demand is manufactured to absorb surplus productive capacity. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Free-market labor is unfreedom whose abolition could liberate human autonomy
#expands(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 108 - Even free labor under capitalism is subject to economic compulsion to sell labor-power.
#expands(0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 599 - Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom.
#corroborates(0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 7 - Capitalist economic choice was coercive, not genuinely free.
#corroborates(0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 100 - Overproduction forces the apparatus to manufacture consumer needs and work-desire
#expands(0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 196 - Marx maintains inequality and unfreedom are inherent realizations of exchange-based freedom.
#expands(0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 804