I guess my thermos is cringe now. God damnit.
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.
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.
Oh… People actually collect these? Yeah that’s kind of against the idea
I simply use a cup for my coffee (https://lemmy.kya.moe/imgproxy?src=pngimg.com%2fuploads/mug_coffee/mug_coffee_PNG16835.png)
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!