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Consumption, in economics, the use of goods and services by households. Consumption is distinct from consumption expenditure, which is the purchase of goods and services for use by households.
This is called the âtreadmill of consumption.â This treadmill, as Roberts puts it, is the âprocess of moving ahead materially without any real gain in satisfaction.â Like a drug addict, he says, more and more âdosesâ of shiny objects are needed to get the same âhigh.â