The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.