Getting back to the argument about higher pay, at first glance it
wouldn't seem to be in accord with the admonition of my friends in the
Work Less Party to "work less, consume less, enjoy more." I propose
that the solution to this riddle is that we don't need to consume
less. We actually need to spend more.
Our culture's unsustainable environmental footprint doesn't come from
consuming "too much" but from consuming the wrong things -- cheap
crap.
In other words "less is more", "black is white" and "up is down".
While agreeing with the sentiment this seems like semantic hairsplitting over the meaning of the word "consumption". You are fighting a losing battle if you want to redefine consumption as anything other than higher GDP. I still find "work less, consume less, enjoy more" more persuasive.