Assertion: consumerism | /r/HasProperty | addiction
Facets:
value: with acquisition
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Charles Debner, author of Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy, told me that while consumerism is an addiction and a threat to our planet, that I should not despair.
text: But consumerism is addictive …
text: Consumerism: the promotion of the consumer’s interests, or the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically desirable; also: a preoccupation with and an inclination toward the buying of consumer goods (Merriam-Webster).
text: Consumerism, as defined by Etzioni (2012), is the obsession with acquisition that has become the organizing principle of American life.