I'm in these three subreddits because I identify with the ideas of them, and I feel they are all apart of the work that needs to be done to change the way our society functions.
There's no reason we need to be working as many hours as we do to survive and it's kept this way intentionally to inspire us to be better consumers. The less time we have for ourselves the more things we buy for their “convenience” factor.
I think about how much of a demand being a consumer society creates on resources. If we didn't buy so much then industries would not produce so much, and use so much. If we made longer lasting clothes, technology, and buildings then we wouldn't need to exchange them so frequently, we could repair things when they break instead of throw them away and replace them.
The media plays possibly the biggest role in this. We consume information and dramas fed to us depicting the lifestyles of six or seven figure earners that we then compare ourselves to when we're lucky to make ends meet on five figure budgets. We watch 5000 advertisements a day across devices all connected specifically to create the most want in us that can be gleaned from our site histories, location data, and lifestyles.
I don't have a clear thought about how this is all connected, but I know it is.
I'm curious what your thoughts on these connections are.