<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # When people are treated like a product, they... > {{When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.}} {{Modern capitalist consumer-life commoditizes people and "educates" them to become human products.}} {{A culture that raises and grooms people to be human resource products in a marketplace cultivates non-individuals who experience life through materialism.}} {{When people are treated as creators versus products, materialism diminishes.}} This is because the way people see themselves changes. {{We see the world as we are, and also as we are treated and seen by others, and by our environmental situation.}} With rare exceptions, the {{people who work in corporations, like those working on assembly-lines, are not producers — they are products.}} This is a distinction that is often overlooked. {{Human products see the world as a grand carnival of products.}} {{Being a human product, versus a producer, makes people feel powerless as ultimately disposable commodities.}} {{In consumer life we become what we produce and consume — disposable junk to be used and thrown away.}} **Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->