The Perpetual Consumer Wheel

drakos (70) in technology • 7 years ago (edited)

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silentscreamer (69) · 7 years ago

Of course wer stuck on a wheel, how could we not be. Same corporate people that set the trends make those gadgets.
When you have the power to set trends, affect buying habits, its really not that hard to put the hamster in the wheel.

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chireerocks (72) · 7 years ago

For every human being the quality of life is really different because every human being is individual and every individual have his/her own set of driving forces to make their life better and this phase of betterment is different from person to person, and in my opinion the greatest technologists was our ancestors because they have explored everything and through the cycle of Exploration - Research - Implementation - Failure, this way they reached to the success step by step so that's why today we human beings are on this current position.

We expand our needs time to time and sometimes we never work towards to achieve needs or we lack the opportunities to achieve that needs, so in this phase of scarcity human being should be Psychologically strong because to attain the cycle of success and possession an individual should know how to face the phase of success and phase of adversity too.

Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂

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oghie (60) · 7 years ago

So much quality on this article. I love this line

So in the end, we're prisoners of this perpetual consumer wheel, where we are somehow forced to keep upgrading our hardware and gadgets in order to satisfy our lust. It's not easy to break this cycle of continuous invention, creation, destruction and recycling of our beloved objects.

Come to think of it it's quite true, we never get satisfied with any gadget. Cause we always know there is another one better and crave to get that one. Well just like you said Blame it on Dopamine ;)

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

Dopamine is a big trouble maker 😆

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oghie (60) · 7 years ago

Apparently, lol

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indigoocean (67) · 7 years ago

And then there are those of us "late adopters" that only buy any technology when it has gotten so ubiquitous that life is impeded without it. I had a "dumb phone" until just a year ago, when I was asked to do a day of workshops and speeches at an important conference and needed some features of a smart phone. To this day, unless I'm traveling, I barely turn the thing on. I have never owned a TV, but did have CDs that I just got rid of when I sold my house. I either recorded to Mp3 or just let it go. What will replace Mp3? Well hopefully nothing soon.

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tvulgaris (47) · 7 years ago (edited)

Simply, different file formats will replace .mp3.
As long as there's a demand for QUALITY over any intensive examination of the content, there'll be "improvements" engineered as solutions. It's not unjustifiable, it's simply that it's seldom necessary those improvements even exist, given that the relative amount of high-quality content doesn't improve quantitatively, especially content that CAN'T be distributed without those improvements.
Truly great music, great visual art, etc. will ALWAYS be made, the overwhelming sea of what is NOT pounding true quality through the noise floor is the impediment.
Arguably, we might be able to generate the kind of mass culture we have without high-speed protocols using different network architectures (they've been around since the 1940s with the advent of digital computing).

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slider2990 (63) · 7 years ago

Well said Drakos.

The consumer wheel is so addictive. We all want more stuff but does it make us more happy? Hard to say.

At least with video content delivered digitally now we do not have to rebuy as much. Although once 8k TVs come at a good price will need to rebuy 8K based video hah.

I have done fairly well resisting the yearly upgrade cycle waiting as long as possible. I like having funds available to travel and other intangible things.

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rapo (52) · 7 years ago

Well I think that technology and human development go hand in hand, many of us are lucky to have the monetary resource to update our things I think it is necessary to go with technological development if we fall behind, an example the market of cryptocurrencies will be the future of money in the world here in venezuela only 20% of the population knows that market, my son and I, we are always aware of it and how it has served us, to face the crisis that my country has, such is the case of working in steemit,

like the world is evolving, that's why laws should be changing to improve, and lawyers updating, I believe that everything in life works in that way, the evolution of life we could call it, nature science, technology, education, culture etc etc

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kuroketzu (45) · 7 years ago

It is normal that our needs are fulfilled to some extent, being compulsive consumers of the innovative! We will always want to have the best, try the best including food or anything else that calls our attention, so when we are accustomed to that quality and for some reason decreases or such service degraded its quality we see the need to Find something to replace it that is much better than what we had before

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pelvis (51) · 7 years ago

Its can be creepy sometimes..
Bearing in mind the relationships of the consumer and the goods it.
Variations in quality of good makes it a variable of vhoices with other homo-satisfactory goods.
I will never trade quality with quantity.
Thats just my view.
Nice post

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yanes94 (71) · 7 years ago

You're right @drakos
the ambitions of people make time change, but how far do we carry that?
We have improved a lot in many aspects, but we have also done so much damage at our pace! It is not wrong for a person to want quality, but why make us slaves to pay for services that sometimes are not used because they do not have time! Why do it? It would be better to invest it in something better! everything that comes out is more expensive and the person, so to speak, becomes crazy to buy it! often forgetting other important needs are extremely consumers.
Why buy so many things that have only a little difference between them? If you can watch a family movie on a regular TV, you do not need to buy one that has even the internet to watch the same movie!
One thing is to consume to live and another is to live to consume!! 👍

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penasantri (43) · 7 years ago

exciting and highly argumentative exposure in the use of technological advancements that make it easier to shape information and it is impossible that no movie form in the cinema can be watched at home. as well as with communication can be done from home despite the distance is very far.

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naconc (40) · 7 years ago

Good job, excellent, THANKS for sharing!

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ikar59 (54) · 7 years ago

I can't wait for my next holographic Blu-ray and holographic camera...

Hhahaha don't forget to buy the same movie revamped for the holographic format.

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changxiu (60) · 7 years ago

好贴！分析的很透彻，欲望无止境。我们不要做追逐个人利益的仓鼠，更应该去体验付出的快乐～

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tattoodjay (73) · 7 years ago

This post is so true I to love gadgets, and then for me add cameras I am always upgrading it gets expensive

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drakos (70) · 7 years ago

I lost count of how many cameras I've had. I've always wanted a DSLR and finally got one this year. I'll be good for a while with my Canon 80D :)

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tattoodjay (73) · 7 years ago

@drakos yes te same for me I have had so many over the years, just upgraded to a full frame mirroless which I am loving

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gvand (62) · 7 years ago

I think this in our way of being as people consuming the first thing we see that is striking, and that could be a big problem for the world, the more we consume more damage we do to the planet because of the amount of energy , garbage, among other things that are wasted

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ayijufridar (74) · 7 years ago

Quality is everything. everyone wants the best quality, good as prestige and as requirement. However, quality is often directly proportional to price. High quality is identical with high price. Is that worth the price? What about the concept of five-star but five-footed prices as a culinary promo?

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hafsa48 (48) · 7 years ago

The Perpetual Consumer Wheel , technology ,blog, wonderful article @drakos , love you technology ❤️??

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zen-art (68) · 7 years ago

It is in our nature to always strive for better in all areas of life. It is like you said, if that wasn't the case, we would still be in our caves. Progress and evolution are natural to humankind, everything develops, expands and becomes better in some way, that means technology too. I would not consider you or me or anyone a hamster because I am sure that you do not follow all the trends for all the products, you have preferences, and why wouldn't you? Wanting the best is a great human feature.

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veta-less (67) · 7 years ago

Hi, @drakos, thank you for your support yesterday. Why do you use upvote bot? It is a profitable investment or

We are an addictive species, we yearn for better and more. ?

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flatrider (60) · 7 years ago

Nice article @drakos and this made me smile. :-D

And that's not all... the Dee Vee Dee came along

And don't you think it's all by design?

So in the end, we're prisoners of this perpetual consumer wheel, where we are somehow forced to keep upgrading our hardware and gadgets in order to satisfy our lust.

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yanabrui (48) · 7 years ago

Hello!
Quality is first and foremost a guarantee of success.
But unfortunately for all it is necessary to pay!
Great post!

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oomcie85 (56) · 7 years ago

Electronic is a testament to the more sophisticated and sophisticated revolution of the world, all of which is dependent on electronic devices and also depends on how we use them on the positive.
not all that easy it will take us to the ease to the end

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gclipse (64) · 7 years ago

Technology rules the world

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crisangel (65) · 7 years ago

Ooh yeah! This falls as a ring to what I have always thought; I have thought on a small scale what happens with smart phones, when we buy one, every day their applications grow causing memory to fill up, then we must be erasing some applications to be able to maintain memory with some space, but there is a moment where there is no room for anything anymore, that's when we have to buy a more advanced phone, I've always asked myself; This has no limit, because everything goes through the same processes, in addition also to those desires to get the best things, the final we are trapped in all this, as you say, I agree with you, with everything you say I see that the problem is dopamine hahaha. "Some superstitious humans feared the television because they thought that it had the demon inside", it did not know that phrase relates to the TV, it sounds super crazy hahahaha. Very educational reading, Greetings and a strong psychological hug.

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entertainmentvn (51) · 7 years ago

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whornung (66) · 7 years ago

What comes close to what you're writing about is sitting on a merry go round and trying to catch the guy in front of you...

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bhabykat (53) · 7 years ago

I still chose quality over the price because in that way I can be able to save. I am not a person who buys something new that goes out of the market because for me money needs to be saved. I don't have that much. But I can truly understand those people who gives reward to themselves by buying something that the market had given. It is their right and it is something that could make them happy then they should do it but that's only if they can afford that lifestyle.

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katrina-ariel (65) · 7 years ago

That addiction has been beneficial to better our lives and improve our comfort (thank you dopamine), however it's a costly process.

Well written. You're making me laugh and illustrating an important point. It would be nice if our quest for quality weren't so wasteful. Good to get into nature and remember that we are not the things we own.

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changxiu (60) · 7 years ago

"我们不是我们拥有的东西"漂亮！
不是所有的东西都依靠物质来衡量。我们更应该多关注内心的丰盈。

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gvincentjosephm (59) · 7 years ago

A quality life for me is spending time with my family and loved ones without any fear, guilt nor restrictions, and a life of freedom and freewill.

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tvulgaris (47) · 7 years ago

I figured it might make a difference to someone to edit my down-thread comment a bit. I'm trying to make a point here.

...As long as there's a demand for QUALITY over any intensive examination of the content, there'll be "improvements" engineered as solutions. It's not unjustifiable, it's simply that it's seldom necessary those improvements even exist, given that the relative amount of high-quality content doesn't improve quantitatively, especially content that CAN'T be distributed without those improvements.

I know, I know, I'm trying to quantify to some degree what most would insist is unquantifiable, I'd insist it's not (with quite a bit of empirical support I'm not going to burden a comment with), but most people's understanding of what is quantifiable is very crude and/or ignorant.

Truly great music, great visual art, etc. will ALWAYS be made, the overwhelming sea of what is NOT pounding true quality through the noise floor is the impediment.

The drive to create will over-ride the lack of outlets and distribution chains; it's those outlets and chains that make the difference in mass awareness and (likely) return to the creator, at least in recognition.

Arguably, we might be able to generate the kind of mass culture we have without high-speed protocols using different network architectures (they've been around since the 1940s with the advent of digital computing).
I'd contend is the conscious decision to buy quality seldom enters into the FOMO and status-seeking that drives nearly all of the market. Designers and manufactures know this, they've learned to count on it since the advent of mass advertising.

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jasonrussell (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

Made me think of this...

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yidneth (67) · 7 years ago

I want a drone for the videos lol... And music gear... I honestly cannot afford to the latest tech, a better camera, a drone, upgrade pc... That keeps you from controlling the thrill of upgrades. Then I realized my good old gear has consistently does its job. You must,you learn, and it time it becomes easier and I do not go and check to suffer lol
Just sometimes
A bit lol
And then I make bucket lists and all

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cryptoasis (38) · 7 years ago

Once you stop striving for more, you might as well kick the bucket ; )

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sandrina.life (58) · 7 years ago

And that is exactly the reason why I went to live up in the mountains i NEpal, far from all the technology, updates and hamster life you were talking about.
I just want to make bubbles soap :)

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