Many people do not understand the issue of how Interior Design perpetuates Consumerism and for how complicated this relationship can become. Many people think about Consumerism and ask themselves, why isn’t anything being done; well to anyone wondering, what is there for us to do about this situation? The culture that we have grown up into is one where we spend money on food, shelter, and materials that we need, but this all goes unnoticed until our parents ask us and badger us about the spending money that was given to us, or our college budget, each month. As we muddle through our busy lives we get wrapped up all of this spending without acknowledging it until those things become more and more expensive, making it unaffordable and realistic to even crave that object. People are not constantly buying new cars because of how expensive they are, along with houses; most people only need one. The thing that many people are not able to grasp unless they are in the position themselves, is the difficulty of throwing your own profession under the bus even if it is to bring awareness to how Consumerism is taking us down one dollar at a time. Consumerism is something that we have built up by ourselves, which is one of the reasons people are frightened as to how long we will allow this vicious cycle to continue and bring us down. However since we have let it take over and become its own successful culture within itself that we have let thrive for this long, it has become something good, at the end of the day many people go home with a paycheck because of our consumerist culture.
Here we are, only able to bring to our attention of the issue of how Interior Design is provoking our consumerist culture, however almost every purchase we make can link us to this vicious cycle of spending copious amounts of money. The reason why I think the bigger purchases like building a house or even just renovating your house for a new feel in your home, or purchasing a new car because your tired of your old one; these purchases are exclusive to the people that can afford them, this follows with all of the high end products; which leads us to the touchy subject of whether or not it is detrimental to the success of the company to bring awareness to its own involvement in consumerism. I believe that there are smart ways to spend your money, and although anyone is entitled to makes their own purchases as desired, I believe that we should bring awareness to the issue so that together we can be more mindful when it comes to buying our second car and our third house. Another problem that comes with this issue of our consumerist culture is that the people that are making most of the inane purchases are the ones that don’t have to care because with having that much money to spend, usually comes a mindset of not caring either which way. The topic of consumerism and its never ending cycle has many winding paths as to the types of people involved which makes it more of a social science experiment as well as the effects that might be detrimental to our economy if this type of issue was brought to our attention in a worldwide affect