研究儿童消费主义的历史学家丹尼尔·库克认为，这其实是上世纪30年代作为服装制造商的一种营销手段流行起来的。
Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
在这个消费主义的时代，大多数买家并没有把大学视为一种投资，而是把它视作一种消费品——就像汽车、衣服或房子一样。
In this consumerist age, most buyers aren't evaluating college as an investment, but rather as a consumer product—like a car or clothes or a house.
问候可以被认为是唯物主义的，消费主义的，无神论的，冷漠的，不可知论的，政治上正确的或反基督教的。
The greeting may be deemed materialistic, consumerist, atheistic, indifferentist, agnostic, politically correct or anti-Christian.
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