一、消费主义在美国的兴起及其影响19世纪40年代开始,商业化的农业生产在美国出现大公司大企业随之产生,这是现代消费主义在美国产生的经济基础。现代意义上的消费主义起源于19世纪末的美国,第二次工业革命使资本主义高速发展,到了20世纪2年代,伴随着美国国民收入的迅速增长,老 I. The Rise and Influence of Consumerism in the United States Beginning in the 1940s, the commercialization of agricultural production in the United States followed the emergence of large corporations and large enterprises. This was the economic basis for modern consumerism in the United States. Consumerism in the modern sense originated in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The second industrial revolution led to the rapid development of capitalism. By the 1920s, along with the rapid growth of U.S. national income,