I think this is going to get important economically.
There's only limited amount of resources a person can consume for consuming sake.
The rest is conspicuous consumption (buying a Ferrari to improve your social status) or its watered down versions brought to the ordinary folks via media brainwashing.
However, once over-consumption becomes a sign of low status (consider that being fat was once a sign of being well-off) it will become hard to keep consumption at current levels, not even mentioning growing it further.
Which in turn means that economies will start to shrink. Which, from a current economic viewpoint, sounds pretty scary.
There's only limited amount of resources a person can consume for consuming sake.
The rest is conspicuous consumption (buying a Ferrari to improve your social status) or its watered down versions brought to the ordinary folks via media brainwashing.
However, once over-consumption becomes a sign of low status (consider that being fat was once a sign of being well-off) it will become hard to keep consumption at current levels, not even mentioning growing it further.
Which in turn means that economies will start to shrink. Which, from a current economic viewpoint, sounds pretty scary.