Mass-produced consumer goods like automobiles, radios, and other electronics become necessities in the 1920s. Samuel Strauss was a
journalist and critic of "consumptionism" which he felt had overtaken the
country. What was "consumptionism" and why was Strauss against it?

Consumptionism is when people have have urge to want more and more things. Strauss contemplated this and did not think consumptionism was ethical and that different types of structures would help the economy, not consumptionism.

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