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Who are the spoiled children of so-called responsible capitalism?

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Has the ideology of eco-responsible consumption definitively buried deconsumption?

© responsible capitalism

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

We all know the bobos, the hipsters, but do you know the "spoiled children"?

Like our neighbors' young children who we hear screaming for candy until their parents give in, because they always give in, "spoiled kids" are those people of all ages who don't want to not give up the advantages of their way of life and who are ready to compromise in order to achieve this.

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For them, consumption is a non-negotiable social asset, so they invent and promote cultural codes to maintain it and hyper-consumption becomes eco-responsible consumption in their mouths.

Have the spoiled children won the cultural battle?

Has the ideology of eco-responsible consumption finally buried deconsumption?

Are we all spoiled children?  

With

• Fanny Parise

  , anthropologist, specialist in the evolution of lifestyles and consumption, author of

  Les enfants gâtés, anthropology of the myth of responsible capitalism

  (Payot editions, 2022)

• Anne de Rugy

  , sociologist at

  Paris-Est Créteil University

  .

  His research work on “chosen downgrades” (professional shifts with a drop in income), the changes in consumption to which they give rise and the justifications that accompany them.

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