Consumerism, causes and consequences After the spread of capitalism across most of the countries, the world has been witnessing the creation of hundreds of thousands of products, This economical system lead to consumerism, which can be explained as buying more things than we really need. this kind of behaviors is caused by many factors, and it has also many bad consequences on human societies. First, There are too many promotions that people are exposed to, they can be found in the street, on TV or while surfing on the WEB, this promotions stimulate people to buy things that we don't really need to as the last TV with the useless option, the new phone that is not much different from the one that we already have, Another big cause of this behavior, is the production policies adopted by modern industries in the last decades, Current products are designed to be thrown away, even if the possibility of making durable products exists, this phenomenon is caused by the will of big companies to sell all over the year to increase their benefits. Consumerism has severe implications over human societies, modern societies are easily and intentionally manipulated to buy more, for instance: a social experiment was made in the united states, where a journalist was asking people if they bought the last iPhone 10, and everyone answered by a "Yes", furthermore, they gave their opinion about the new options that exist on that phone, the only problem is that it wasn't available yet on the market , so everyone had lied about having that product, because they would feel ashamed of "not having the last product". Even if consumerism has dire consequences on human individuals, the trends show that it will increase in the future since it's encouraged by big companies and politics for their own benefits.