Comments on Amitai Etzioni: voluntary simplicity: characterization, select psychological implications, and societal consequences

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The essay made by Amitai Etzioni regarding voluntary simplicity tends to contradict several economic ideologies. Etzioni's claim involving down-shifting among individuals who retain their affluence negates beliefs on life-style reconstruction in repairing market society's dilemmas. The likelihood of more directly activist reaction to the search for meaning in a consumerist society was also not taken into account when Etzioni made his claim regarding retreatism of life-style change.

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Voluntary simplicity: characterization, select psychological implications, and societal consequences

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Societal consequences were noted with regards to the adoption of voluntary simplicity. Voluntary simplicity tends to improve the ability of a society to protect the environment. People who conduct their lives based on the tenets of voluntary simplicity are more congenial to the environment than those whose lives are based on conspicuous consumption. Attainment of basic socio-economic equality is also strongly associated with voluntary simplicity.

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Response: reply to Peter Taylor-Gooby

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Some of Peter Taylor-Gooby's contentions about the essay on voluntary simplicity are valid. First, Taylor-Gooby was right with regards to his claim that the behavior in current societies does not prove the thesis. Such claim was true mainly because the system of beliefs has not spread widely yet. Second, his claim that the report on voluntary simplicity tends to be an act of advocacy was also right.

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