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When did we experience that subtle shift from being called customers to being called consumers? My memory wants to say it was sometime in the 80s, but memory can be quite fallible. Perhaps it was much earlier, but whenever it happened I see it as the demarcation point where free market economics shifted from tool to religion.
#latestagecapitalism #degrowth #climatecrisis
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