Then your argument is not clear to me, sorry :/ I said “there is no demand without consumers” and you said “production happens without demand”. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that production sometimes exceeds demand? Do you mean that production happens no matter what demand?
It seems plainly obvious, to me, that by being a consumer of a good, you are stimulating the demand for that good, and with capitalism being as it is, when demand is stimulated, production (or price increasing, where production is not an option) shortly follows. Short of radical regime or legislation change (both of which I should be clear I support) I don’t see that changing. Thus, buying glitter is worse than not buying glitter (as far as I can see).
but production happens without demand
Does some part of you truly believe that if demand for glitter dropped to 0 that glitter production would continue for any significant period of time?
that’s not what I said. it’s a strawman.
Then your argument is not clear to me, sorry :/ I said “there is no demand without consumers” and you said “production happens without demand”. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that production sometimes exceeds demand? Do you mean that production happens no matter what demand?
It seems plainly obvious, to me, that by being a consumer of a good, you are stimulating the demand for that good, and with capitalism being as it is, when demand is stimulated, production (or price increasing, where production is not an option) shortly follows. Short of radical regime or legislation change (both of which I should be clear I support) I don’t see that changing. Thus, buying glitter is worse than not buying glitter (as far as I can see).
production always happens before products are in the market. it happens independent of demand. it is necessary for supply to to exist.