
Consumerism believes that personal well-being and happiness depends to a very large extent on the level of personal consumption, in particular on the purchase of material goods. Today, consumerism is pervasive, the real spirit for any developing economy is to develop consumerism-driven products and marketing practices, and it is inevitable that the interests of consumers in general will be safeguarded. Good action is one that leads to a balance of pleasure, and bad action is one that causes more pain than pleasure. For Charvaka, the goal of human life is to achieve the maximum amount of pleasure in this life and to avoid as much pain as possible.

Out of the four human values - Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha - they advocate the pursuit of karma only, and Artha merely as a means of facilitating the purpose. An important Indian philosophy called "Charvaka" is that this world is the only reality. His simple philosophies of avoiding pain, living a simple life, and learning has made much of his philosophy appealing and influential. ) has been very advanced and developed, leading to his ideas becoming highly influential in modern thought.

While this sometimes led to a negative view of his philosophy, in many regions of the world today the reality is that his thinking (. He said, "No pleasure in itself is a bad thing, but the things that produce certain pleasures involve disturbances many times greater than the pleasures themselves." Epicurus tells us that the knowledge of which pleasures are good for us is wisdom. ( shrink)Įpicurus was a Greek philosopher interested in pleasure or pursuit of it more than other ideals.
