Fan Of Consumerism

Wednesday the 5th of I want to say February 2025 and if I'm being honest I'm not really a great fan of ignorant consumerism. I know that that sounds like a bit of a mouthful but let me try and break it down a little bit. So for the longest time I guess, I guess for as long as I've

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lived I've always been a consumer of something. Could be Coca-Cola, could be PlayStation, could be Sony products, it could be you know services such as Sky, Netflix, you name it, you know, you know, you know, a consumer of

public transport, a consumer of like you know cars or whatever it is, I've always been a consumer until this day I remain a consumer, right? And for the longest time I suppose, like there's always been this like certain level of like a subconscious expectancy. If I pay for something, I expect a certain service to be delivered and if it hasn't been delivered, I have every right to pick up a nasty attitude about it. Until I began to effectively produce my own

things with the intention of providing a service or with the intention of providing a product. And you know, kind of like having, you know, experiencing this disconnect between myself as the producer of a product or let's say for example the delivery man of a product because sometimes I wasn't always the producer. Like in the instance where I'm currently working for example I don't produce anything. I stand by a certain place, they produce something, they then give that certain product over

to me and I deliver that product over to the customer. And whilst I haven't been you know whilst I don't experience the greatest deal of like terrible attitudes when it comes to customers, I do get the odd one person here or there that effectively laments or complains about a negative experience with their product. Now of course, they have every single right to effectively raise their complaints or raise the laments. But at the same time, sometimes I do get this, not impression, but I get this

feeling of like, not resentment, but it's just this feeling of like if you understood or if this person understood what it took for that certain product to be made Despite the fact that they have paid for it They may perhaps have a certain level of appreciation for the fact that sometimes It's not always possible to deliver everything to this excellent standard And I feel like you know for me as a consumer despite the fact that I pay for something I sort of like appreciate that despite the fact that I've paid for something there is still a human being

trying to run their own business. As far as I'm concerned, despite the fact that I've paid for something on the opposite end of that spectrum, what I've paid for they're not getting the full wage of what it is that I've paid because a certain percentage is going to go to taxes, a certain percentage is going to go to electricity, the materials used to actually make said thing and then they're actually going to have to, from that percentage, try to find money to effectively pay themselves.

And their experience is completely different. We get this impression that, wow, we pay money and it just goes in somebody's pocket. And they just basically get wealthy and get rich. Quite frankly, that's not the way that it works. And so with all of that being said, I'm just trying to say that I'm not a great fan of ignorant consumerism, where the customer is always right. I mean yeah like to a certain extent there

is a certain mentality that an entrepreneur does need to adopt in order to keep their customers happy. But if you look around nowadays there's always a notice. There's always a notice that says like you know no tolerance you know kind of like you know no kind of like abuse or whatever will be tolerated. Now I'm sorry to say this but I'm going to close off on one point. If these signs are plastered all over your local Gregg shops, they're plastered all

over your local kind of like Argos or maybe like your Sainsbury's and there's always a notice that say like you know, treat staff with respect. Does that give you the impression maybe that the customer isn't always right? I'm not really a great fan of ignorant consumerism.