Quotes About Consumption

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we haven't adjusted our consumption patterns in any way, shape or form to meet the realities of the new lower income.

Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Economic gross is making us fat.

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.