Poems About Consumerism by Top Critiquers
#consumerism
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
1st Dec 2024 9:02pm
1st Dec 2024 9:02pm
Your American Flag Was Made In China
The key to paradise was made in China.
30% of the worlds manufacturing is made in China as of 2023.
Second is the United States at only 15%.
Here are the reasons why:
Lower Wages
Chinese Labor
No Unions
A Massive Labor Pool
Horrible working conditions
Governmental Interest in Industrial Policy
Many industrial clusters
Currency Manipulation
Fewer workplace regulations
Less Oversight concerning pollution
Taxes
No workers comp insurance
Dumping
Neomercantilism
Lower quality goods and...
30% of the worlds manufacturing is made in China as of 2023.
Second is the United States at only 15%.
Here are the reasons why:
Lower Wages
Chinese Labor
No Unions
A Massive Labor Pool
Horrible working conditions
Governmental Interest in Industrial Policy
Many industrial clusters
Currency Manipulation
Fewer workplace regulations
Less Oversight concerning pollution
Taxes
No workers comp insurance
Dumping
Neomercantilism
Lower quality goods and...
#consumerism
#corruption
#job
#politics
#power
125 reads
6 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
15th Jun 2024 9:08pm
15th Jun 2024 9:08pm
THE PRICE OF SIN INDEED
I am the story teller of words ✍️ Now after careful thinking about, the deepness of the situations, that we are facing with on a daily day 🧐 I don't want you to think like me, I just want you to think for thyself 🤔 Question have your life changed around you??? What I mean has it affected you mentally, and emotionally and physically, and spiritual and financially 🤔 Now let's take it to the point of just nearly surviving, on a daily basis, how much of the world change around you economically, and financially just trying to have a normal life 🤫 what...
#consumerism
#dialogue
#metaphor
#money
#StreamOfConsciousness
155 reads
0 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
16th Apr 2024 6:35pm
16th Apr 2024 6:35pm
On ...Off ...Tell me Another...Cut the Crap !!
That's my new expression
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
Old school like me
No apologies
I'll run circles around your candy ass
Streaming replaced cable
Bigger and faster they claimed
Still clouds and freezes
Just more bullshit
On... Off I say
Freaks of nature
Guys wearing shorts in 40 degree NYC
Motorized bikes, scooters, skateboards
Riding on the sidewalks
Pedestrians be damned
Selfish isn’t a right of passage
Hold a door for your neighbor
On… Off I say
5000 channels
Ten ingredient flavored mayonnaise
QR...
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#consumerism
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
299 reads
44 Comments
summultima
uma
uma
Poem Published
28th Jan 2025 8:45am
28th Jan 2025 8:45am
~cua cua
crabby
crustaceans parade
from highly salted
& pressurised mid-seas ..
inspired from the so
recent news …simmering
in bloodied human hunger..
towards
namesake summoned peace
treaties of the tricky capital..
wearing their trending
military-labelled terrorism ..
enroute the trading roguish
& pirating- the deadly silent Atlantic..
they had sumptuously drunk in their
quizzically coloured beverage.. that’s
ubiquitously smothering the seas
in nacreous rainbow
spills- those...
crustaceans parade
from highly salted
& pressurised mid-seas ..
inspired from the so
recent news …simmering
in bloodied human hunger..
towards
namesake summoned peace
treaties of the tricky capital..
wearing their trending
military-labelled terrorism ..
enroute the trading roguish
& pirating- the deadly silent Atlantic..
they had sumptuously drunk in their
quizzically coloured beverage.. that’s
ubiquitously smothering the seas
in nacreous rainbow
spills- those...
#animals
#CallToAction
#consumerism
#nature
#violence
132 reads
6 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
15th Dec 2024 7:36pm
15th Dec 2024 7:36pm
Entitle(d)ment
Meanwhile in another (W)alternate universe...
And when the Great voice was heard over the loudspeakers
The declaration of a free society had been rightly proclaimed
So from the eccentric tycoon to the common job seeker
Money became an obsolete thing of dishonor and shame
In the cities everyone went into the streets to burn their bills
Stock had no more power or meaning from borrower to lender
For all across the globe leaders had picked up their quills
Making bartering and human kindness the new legal tender
And no matter the time...
And when the Great voice was heard over the loudspeakers
The declaration of a free society had been rightly proclaimed
So from the eccentric tycoon to the common job seeker
Money became an obsolete thing of dishonor and shame
In the cities everyone went into the streets to burn their bills
Stock had no more power or meaning from borrower to lender
For all across the globe leaders had picked up their quills
Making bartering and human kindness the new legal tender
And no matter the time...
#consumerism
#freedom
#LifeStruggles
155 reads
2 Comments
MidnightSonneteer
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 00:45am
12th Nov 2024 00:45am
A Faustian Dream
Behold the loutish MAGA derision
as specimens of imbecility
marked by a semantic imprecision
yoked to emotive volatility
and a co-occuring need for action
in the to and fro of their Adderall
foundering for instant satisfaction
in conservative seas of folderol
said to be legitimate worldview
by people enslaved to a joystick
and techno feudal endorphins askew
reinforced at every media click
to warrant their manipulated thoughts
to goose-step quickly into MAGA bots.
as specimens of imbecility
marked by a semantic imprecision
yoked to emotive volatility
and a co-occuring need for action
in the to and fro of their Adderall
foundering for instant satisfaction
in conservative seas of folderol
said to be legitimate worldview
by people enslaved to a joystick
and techno feudal endorphins askew
reinforced at every media click
to warrant their manipulated thoughts
to goose-step quickly into MAGA bots.
#addiction
#consumerism
#humankind
#SelfHarm
#technology
133 reads
4 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
29th Jul 2022 11:27am
29th Jul 2022 11:27am
Dare
Trying to taste the salt
from the dead sea,
in the pauper's sea.
In the non-navigable sea
of the migrant,
in the eternal movement
of beings who fear
their origin and their destination.
They don't always realize
the adult in the lines
from a boy's hand.
from the dead sea,
in the pauper's sea.
In the non-navigable sea
of the migrant,
in the eternal movement
of beings who fear
their origin and their destination.
They don't always realize
the adult in the lines
from a boy's hand.
#money
#mirror
#consumerism
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0 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
16th Apr 2025 6:47pm
16th Apr 2025 6:47pm
A Day in the Life
I read the news today – oh boy
They “put the ass in astronaut”.
Bald villain’s pointless promo ploy –
fake feminism – greed is hot.
Distraction from the bad and worse
(I read the news today – oh boy)
With every article I curse
the evil forces that destroy.
With lies and trickery employed
they keep the masses meek with fear.
I read the news today – oh boy!
Keep quiet or you’ll disappear.
And still I sit with pen, in vain;
I want to write of peace and joy
But then I derail my own train – ...
They “put the ass in astronaut”.
Bald villain’s pointless promo ploy –
fake feminism – greed is hot.
Distraction from the bad and worse
(I read the news today – oh boy)
With every article I curse
the evil forces that destroy.
With lies and trickery employed
they keep the masses meek with fear.
I read the news today – oh boy!
Keep quiet or you’ll disappear.
And still I sit with pen, in vain;
I want to write of peace and joy
But then I derail my own train – ...
#consumerism
#despair
#freedom #greed
#freedom #greed
76 reads
6 Comments
Cipher_O
Poem Published
14th Aug 2021 9:34am
14th Aug 2021 9:34am
Forgettable
Fusillades of faces -
All the modern things.
Feet into prints – Leaving no traces.
Shred sessions, into ribbons,
Falling to the floor
and more,
Falling away -
in segments.
Quick uploads -
into dissolution
vacancies
in memory breaches.
Photographic nothing.
Like -
Cigarette burns
at the surface
of the eyes.
So unseen -
in an absence
of meaning,
meaningless.
On to the next -
thing to be forgotten,
Ill gotten
begotten
of
...
All the modern things.
Feet into prints – Leaving no traces.
Shred sessions, into ribbons,
Falling to the floor
and more,
Falling away -
in segments.
Quick uploads -
into dissolution
vacancies
in memory breaches.
Photographic nothing.
Like -
Cigarette burns
at the surface
of the eyes.
So unseen -
in an absence
of meaning,
meaningless.
On to the next -
thing to be forgotten,
Ill gotten
begotten
of
...
#love
#technology
#apocalypse
#consumerism
#dystopian
494 reads
6 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
11th May 2021 2:56pm
11th May 2021 2:56pm
LET'S HEAR IT FOR BUSYNESS
THINK!
I've heard it all my life:
"An idle mind is
the devil's workshop."
This sage proverb
is catalysis to stay busy.
"Don't let the grass
grow under your feet",
is another workaholic goody.
The reasoning behind this
pseudo-philosophy is you
can only get ahead, reach
your goal, or add bucks
to your bank account
by staying on the treadmill
none stop, 24-7-365.
BENEFITS:
Let's hear it for the benefits!
The benefits of not
resting, taking a break,
or an extended vacation
coupled with...
I've heard it all my life:
"An idle mind is
the devil's workshop."
This sage proverb
is catalysis to stay busy.
"Don't let the grass
grow under your feet",
is another workaholic goody.
The reasoning behind this
pseudo-philosophy is you
can only get ahead, reach
your goal, or add bucks
to your bank account
by staying on the treadmill
none stop, 24-7-365.
BENEFITS:
Let's hear it for the benefits!
The benefits of not
resting, taking a break,
or an extended vacation
coupled with...
#money
#consumerism
409 reads
4 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
5th Sep 2022 5:49am
5th Sep 2022 5:49am
Straight Talk Live (Is it Luciferin or Commercialism)
I will begin this Straight Talk Live piece with questions than answers, or any type of resolutions.
I am a very sociable interactive person, and I accept everyone as you are, as you stand, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally.
I never hide the person, as I am, is always as I do, confidence in my stance for what I do.
Life is not promised by the next breath we take, and it is too short to be measured by time.
Therefore, do not hide behind the veil of your true self.
My daily promotion, is to love yourself first,...
I am a very sociable interactive person, and I accept everyone as you are, as you stand, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally.
I never hide the person, as I am, is always as I do, confidence in my stance for what I do.
Life is not promised by the next breath we take, and it is too short to be measured by time.
Therefore, do not hide behind the veil of your true self.
My daily promotion, is to love yourself first,...
#TruthOfLife
#consumerism
#philosophical
638 reads
8 Comments
runningturtle87
Poem Published
27th Jul 2021 00:19am
27th Jul 2021 00:19am
When Profits Offset
When Profits Offset
That
aristocratically
condscending
smile
at the humiation
of those
who
ironically rely
on your humanity
says everything
they need
to know
about
their
eating
cake.
That
aristocratically
condscending
smile
at the humiation
of those
who
ironically rely
on your humanity
says everything
they need
to know
about
their
eating
cake.
#money
#consumerism
572 reads
1 Comment
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