Comment by Alconicon
2 months ago
So you go to work, earn money, then you buy yourself some object to put it in a shelf?
And thats basically it?
You are not even playing it?
To do what with it? Letting your kids/family sell your collection with a loss?
Is it background decoration for you? Couldn't you just buy bulk of Vinyl no one wants to use it for your decoration purposes?
That feels like consumerism at the peak.
Is it consumerism to walk around the beach collecting pretty rocks to go home and put them on a shelf?
A rock is not a consumer good, so no.
And a rock is unique, nice to look at, did not cost you anything and kind of an appreciation of nature.
Enjoy your rock! (i'm sincere)
Naturally since people are buying things, technically they are consuming.
I mean that collecting a relatively small number of durable and visually pleasing objects isn't really the worst flavor of consumerism, even if it seems pointless to some people.
I agree we have a massive problem with over-consumption (most glaringly with things like fast fashion), but I'm not sure record collectors are a big problem.
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