Capitalism and leisure

Capitalism depends on a continuous sense of dis merriment to exist. The temporary relief experienced by displease workers engaging in vacuous activities such as shopping is not caused by the acquisition of an object, but rather is produced through and through the action of patent consumption of those objects. In other(a) words, the relief is felt during the following of true objects and the exchange of money for goods, but diminishes almost immediately once the coveted object is obtained.IPods and MySpace are recent examples that seem to bear this out. The acquisition of an IPod necessitates the pursuit of music and the desire to perpetually obtain more music, while MySpace consumes wide amounts of free time and functions by the constant acquisition of friends. They cannot create satisfaction in their original state they only create satisfaction through the promise of acquiring infinitely more.Leisure activities such as be the movies, on the other hand, produce temporary sa tisfaction through the conspicuous consumption of personal time and diminishes shortly after the movie ends. Marx and vocaliser are correct in their assertion that life in the groundbreaking era is essentially dissatisfying the capitalist economy could not exist without a pervasive and perpetual sense of dissatisfaction.However, the assumption that workers who are not disoriented from their labor are generally more satisfied seems to discount other concomitant factors, such as the spirituality and close personal and family relationships that two capitalism and communism discount as irrelevant or inessential to life in the modern era. Both can be considered leisure activities, and both have been reported to produce levels of satisfaction among those who participate in these types of activities.