You start off fine by saying that in the context of addictions and other mental aberrations, people are not likely to act in their long term best interests. But then you say this:
> In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.
In this context, "creating wealth" is not about accumulating resources to create 'even more value' a la Capital. It seems like you're confounding wealth and capital, and they're very different things here. Here we're talking about wealth as meaning economic welfare. Society has more economic welfare--Wealth--when economic exchange happens because resources are allocated in a way that increases utility for everyone.
Life wouldn't be worth living if we worked for the sole purpose of creating lasting capital, in order to build more capital. Consumerism is necessary, so
>In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.
isn't really a bad thing.
So your first idea and your second idea are only marginally related, and combining them probably hurts your argument overall.
> In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.
In this context, "creating wealth" is not about accumulating resources to create 'even more value' a la Capital. It seems like you're confounding wealth and capital, and they're very different things here. Here we're talking about wealth as meaning economic welfare. Society has more economic welfare--Wealth--when economic exchange happens because resources are allocated in a way that increases utility for everyone.
Life wouldn't be worth living if we worked for the sole purpose of creating lasting capital, in order to build more capital. Consumerism is necessary, so
>In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.
isn't really a bad thing.
So your first idea and your second idea are only marginally related, and combining them probably hurts your argument overall.