Consumption.
If your life is defined by consumption, you’re not adding anything to the world, which is where most people experience meaning.
Maybe you’re planning to consume now and create later. Marriage is all about creation.
If your life is defined by consumption, you’re not adding anything to the world, which is where most people experience meaning.
Maybe you’re planning to consume now and create later. Marriage is all about creation.
I disagree!
It's not a life I would choose to live, but as you might guess from my username I absolutely see value in consumption.
If GP desires to live a life defined by consumption, by all means, they should do so. Regardless of how "adding to the world" is measured, the capital that GP controls will be transferred to the people producing the content GP consumes - people who are by definition "creators".
If it makes GP happy to be primarily a source of resources for the creative class, I see no social negatives to that behavior.
I didn’t mean to suggest it’s a social negative. I only meant to suggest they’re defining their meaning by an odd side of the equation.