Watch "Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy" on Netflix.

[Solomon]

It will blow your mind! Scarier than a horror flick. And it's real!.

[PeaceWave]

1. Meh. I like buying stuff. I'm a consumer.

[Skittles]

2. WTF

everyone is a consumer but there are more responsible ways to do it

making stuff that cannot be fixed and must be replaced, for example, just so people will BUY MORE is just plain wrong

[PeaceWave]

3. I factor disposability of mostly Chinese made goods into some (not all) of my purchases.

I'm also really good at fixing things. For instance, I have a tablet that looked broken beyond repair due to an old battery that was inflating out of its sleeve. No problem. Hopped on YouTube. Figured out how to swap it out. Hopped on Amazon. Ordered a new battery. Pulled out the screwdriver and tools to pop open an electronics device and a few minutes later the tablet was good to go. It might actually be better than new, since this new battery lasts a shockingly long amount of time before needing to be recharged.

[Skittles]

4. well OK then

that is a better response than MEH

[PeaceWave]

5. Honestly though, I'm mostly meh. I just love buying stuff - mostly from Costco.

[Think. Again.]

7. Have you considered therapy or a support group?

There really isn't any shame in attempting self-improvement.

[Skittles]

13. I cannot relate

nope

[canetoad]

15. I agree

I buy what is utterly necessary and only then if I can't scrounge, find or borrow items. I'm so bloody sick of senseless consumerism at the cost of the planet, the environment and the living creatures that suffer.

[mercuryblues]

8. Yup

Just had to replace a 5 year old dishwasher. Over $500 to fix or $800 for a new one. This makes our 4th dishwasher in 25 years.

I'm tired of buying dishwashers and washing machines.

[Skittles]

12. excellent example

they're making crap, selling it for way too much, and making it so everyone knows they are better off just buying a new one

the documentary addresses what all this excess throw-away merch is doing to landfills, how it harming the WORLD

[Think. Again.]

6. K&R

[jmbar2]

9. Whenever I'm tempted to buy

I try to imagine how long before it lands in a landfill. Stops me dead in my tracks a lot.

[Solomon]

10. You touched on the thing that everybody is missing.

The enormous waste. They can't possibly sell all the products that are made so they wind up as trash! And they make their employees destroy stuff before they throw it away to keep people from getting it free from the garbage pile.

In order for companies like Amazon to get products to you so quickly the products have to be overproduced. Every time I'm in a store now I see rows and rows of products that won't be sold and will wind up taking precious space as mounds of trash.

As big or maybe bigger problem than the growing plastic continents in our oceans.

[jmbar2]

16. Amen

It's a really important factor even in my daily grocery shopping. I won't buy anything in a plastic clamshell. I'm still not sure if yoghurt and cottage cheese cartons are recyclable - see conflicting info on that.

[Jacson6]

11. I have a Wayfair Credit Account.

I have been buying furniture over the last four years for my economy apartment. But as long as I paid off the items within six months I paid no interest. Of course, that takes discipline which some consumers don't know about or have the proper knowledge.

[LeftInTX]

14. I tried watching it, but it seemed more clickbait stuff...

I was waiting for some "conspiracy", but it didn't hold my attention.

It seemed like it might have been trending that Amazon was a monopoly? I don't know. It just wasn't well done.

And if it's about disposable, poorly made products, there are much better documentaries out there. I just couldn't into it.

[Ferryboat]

17. Your right, rather tedious.

More or less reinforced my already cynical view.

[Solomon]

18. You didn't stay with it long enough. I had the same reaction the first time I tried to watch it. The first several

minutes are kind of tedious. But when they get to the point it becomes fascinating. And the part where companies start suing fix it businesses made me pretty angry. But the trash piles! And they tell you that they offload all the trash to low economy countries around the world. There were scenes where there's so much clothing on some of the beaches in Africa you can't even get in the water!

There's something wrong with producing that kind of waste.

[LeftInTX]

20. Yes, that it is old news that recycle and old clothes goes to Africa etc. There are numerous documentaries.

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[Danmel]

19. My husband and I had this conversation today

We went to the mall to get a new toaster oven-ours was at least 15 years old and it was time. We were remarking that every store seemed to have the same stuff, so much stuff that was obviously not going to be sold. I saw a documentary about Brandy Melville and it showed clothing washing up on the beach in Ghana. It's not sustainable. Makes me so sad.