Tag: consumption

• Live commerce is inherently anti-humanity.

  First-principles. Live commerce short-circuits desire. Live commerce’s raison d’etre is reducing friction between impulse and action. It came into existence because of the phenoenon called ‘cart abandonement’. This happens when people pick stuff to buy, but then don’t complete the transaction. for fashion industry, cart abandonement is 90%, it seems.Often because better-sense prevails. An hour […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  November 18, 2021

  climate change, Futures, Uncategorized

  climate change, consumption, influencer, marketing, social commerce

• Food as love / food fetish

  

  1. Food as love “Jevan zala?  Kay khallas? ” (Did you eat? What did you eat for dinner?) Phone lines across the world are clogged with concerns of lovely people. In absence of real intimacy,  families and lovers resort to questionnaire of food intake and bowel movements. In absence of touch they want to ensure […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  February 11, 2015

  Behaviors, Uncategorized

  consumption, fetish, food, life, narcissism, trend

• The N-generation

  

  Just read a post from the crowd-sourced diary of narcissists – thoughtcatalog.com The post is called ‘Why I’m Trading A House And Salary For A Motorcycle And Map‘ Please read it, because this blog post is a reaction to it. Let me quickly summarise here the intent of the post anyways. Its a self congratulatory […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 19, 2013

  Behaviors, Uncategorized

  consumption, narcissism, thoughtcatalog

• Irresponsible brand #56: Bisleri

  

  See these ads -> Bisleri500 Angry bride, Bisleri500 Casanova, Bisleri500 Superhero Tell me you didn’t find them disturbing. If you did, stop drinking this irresponsible brand, and if it can be helped, bottled water altogether. Story of the bottled water If not, let me shepherd out the outrage. What do you think is the brand […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 7, 2013

  Irresponsible brands

  bisleri, capitalism, caste, class, conscienscious consumption, consumption, india, nature, sociology, waste