Companies spend millions each year on advertising online in magazines and on billboards. These advertisements can encourage people to buy things that they do not need. What are the positive and negative side effects of consumerism?

Nowadays, companies are spending
vast amount
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vast amounts
a vast amount
of money behind
advertisement
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the advertisement
of their
prodcts
commodities offered for sale
product
. Adverts are medium to attract
specific group
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specific groups
to buy products manufactured by
organization
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an organization
the organization
.
However
, due to
influence
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the influence
of
such
advertisements consumers tend to buy unnecessary products many times, it leads to
consumerism
. I will discuss positive and negative effects of
consumerism
in ensuring paragraphs. One of the advantages of the
consumerism
is social development. In a consumeristic
society
, consumers are able to purchase products effortlessly as
rivals
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rival
companies running behind strain of market economy. Companies launching high quality products and adverts them by internet, TV commercials, covert advertising, newspaper, magazines, telemarketing and so on, which enable customers to have many alternatives to choose from.
For instance
,
constant broadcasting
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the constant broadcasting
at products of various companies
such
as eBay,
Mirraw
A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus
Mira
and Shein on TV and social media help me to compare quality and price of products before
make
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making
an order.
As a result
, in a
society
high in
consumerism
, social status of people significantly improves.
In contrast
,
consumerism
leads to environmental degradation since people are more likely to throw away the products rather than reuse them. In a consumerist
society
, advertisements not only target audience to purchase products which are unnecessary, but
also
, force them to dispose products very frequently.
As a result
, the culture of disposing items alarmingly increasing of non-
biogradable
capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
biodegradable
products
such
as metal, plastic and
radio-active
exhibiting or caused by radioactivity
radioactive
materials.
For example
, extremely high waste disposal in western countries
has grown
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grew
in significance over the
last
decades due to their easy
availablity
the quality of being at hand when needed
availability
of products coupled with eye-catching advertisements.
This
suggests that the
more
being nothing more than specified
mere
availability of products, the worse the impact on
environment
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the environment
. In conclusion, advertisements help companies
to boost
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boost
their sales and attracts the customers even though they lead
society
to select the best products and services. Unfortunately, negative impact on
environment
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the environment
cannot be overlooked.
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