system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Since we are supposed to be consumers, what would happen to the economy if everyone drastically reduced the amount of money they spend on a regular basis?
gpt
Less consumerism means fewer sales. Fewer sales mean fewer profits. Fewer profits mean downsizing, lost efficiency, lost jobs, businesses closing down, markets shrinking.

It's really quite problematic because from an environmental perspective we should be massively downsizing our consumerism. But it also results in significant socio-economic problems if we did.