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Spending quality time with family doing outdoors activities, ensuring good and safe care and education for your children, eating quality food at fine restaurant, buying quality electronics, etcetera are actually the complete opposite of "stupid consumerism".

Sounds like an excellent way to spend your money if you have it.

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None of these activities, as you've phrased them, are particularly expensive. Doing them the way OP phrased them, i.e. the most expensive way possible, is what I think is meant by stupid consumerism.

Why was this comment downvoted? Genuinely curious.

Is merely entertaining a notion of living above £50k subsistence unacceptable in this community?

Because you don't need to spend that much to do any of those things. It would be an interesting article if it actually addressed the minimum income needed to achieve that lifestyle.

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