What was once a symbol of your eco-friendly lifestyle has now become a status symbol - with people owning whole walls of reusable bottles to show off online....
  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can someone explain to me why this is consumerism? I’m not going into YouTube to watch, due to the ads, but I have one of these (not a Stanley but very similar) and it has actually helped me buy less drinks and drink more water.

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Think of stamp-collecting, but instead, you start collecting algorithmically controlled limited-edition thermos flask. The goal of these bottles were to be reusable, but people have started buying them as status symbols, just like Nike - they’re not going to be used, they’ll “rot” on the shelves. People are not buying them because they care about the environment, but because FOMO.

    • ThenThreeMore@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I got a Stanley classic trigger a few years ago because the job I was in was so frantic I’d never get to drink a hot drink hot otherwise. It’s been doing we great since.

      I can’t understand collecting the damn things though!