Of course, survival needs consumption and takes consumption as the premise and foundation, but living in life is not for the purpose of consumption, but for the foundation  Living is not for consumption and possession
Consumerism completely reverses the relationship between the instrumental rationality of consumption and the purpose of survival, takes consumption as the purpose and reduces survival to a means, thus obscuring the value care of human existence, This has caused the lack of the meaning dimension of human consumption, which is really sad
The core problem of consumerism is to reverse the fundamental relationship between consumption and survival.