[kennend3]

The comments from this individual made me question if they understand what "logic" means.

The write:

> Take it to the logical extreme.

Then proceeds to make a number of serious illogical comments?

Killing off state lotto leads to pension defaults, bars going bankrupt, etc?

as you said, no better use of the money?

The entirely missed my point which was people do dumb things with their money on a regular basis, lotto and gambling were two examples in my opinion. Naturally people who gamble would disagree and they are entitled to their opinions.

[Red_Leaves_Flyy]

I plainly saw your point that people do dumb things with their money, suggesting I didn’t begs the question: did you actually read and ponder on my comment? My apologies for thinking you had something else to say on the matter of consumerism which is what I was attempting to engage you in discussion about. You see my examples built off of yours but you neglected to imagine the broader world without consumerism. I should made my expectation of you more clear. Apologies. I’ll summarize the point I was making explicitly for you. Capitalism is impossible without mindless consumerism. If mindless consumerism falters for a moment markets panic and the dominoes start falling. We cannot talk about ending mindless consumerism without talking about tens of millions of unemployed Americans, contagious economic crisis spreading from market to market (thanks financialization of everything) and everywhere else unpredictably.