The trend has also led many to reconsider their relationship with their consumption.
“It really normalizes being a regular-degular person.
We get on social media and we’re constantly being sold new things all the time.
Buy this, get this haul, whatever.
But most of us are not living that way,” Lauren said in the video.
“I’m telling you that because, during that 32-month period, we didn’t buy anything.
We cut our expenses down to the lowest of the low.”
Like Lauren, the economic benefits of consuming less may resonate with young people.
Similarly,Dr.
By engaging, even if about under-consuming, they still have your attention and $$$.
“In my view, the ‘underconsumption core’ is a new iteration of anti-consumerism,” she said.
