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A stage of consumer culture where consumption no longer serves needs, identity, or even pleasure—it has become an automatic, compulsive response to systemic precarity, loneliness, and manufactured desire. In late-stage consumerism, people buy not because they want things but because buying is the only remaining mode of participation in social life. Algorithms engineer cravings, subscriptions extract steady revenue, and goods are designed to fail or feel obsolete within months. The result is a hollow cycle: work to earn, earn to spend, spend to feel momentary relief, then repeat. Late-stage consumerism is consumption without satisfaction, accumulation without meaning, and a treadmill that never stops accelerating.
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