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Consumption
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Consumption is Falling → Reduce inflation, boost middle-class spending power, and provide tax relief to increase disposable income.
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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion
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― The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
― The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
