What are the characteristics of consumption?

Consumption is divided into production consumption and personal consumption. The former refers to the use and consumption of means of production and living labor in the process of material production. The latter refers to the behavior and process that people use the material materials and spiritual products produced to meet their personal needs, and it is "performing life functions outside the production process". It is an indispensable condition for restoring human labor and labor reproduction. Generally speaking, consumption refers to personal consumption.

For example, capitalist production is aimed at exploiting the surplus value created by hired workers. This determines that the consumption of working people is limited to a very narrow range.

The low consumption level of working people hinders or even destroys the development of production, and the economic crisis is a prominent example. Under the socialist system, the purpose of social production is to meet the people's growing material and cultural needs, which eliminates the antagonistic contradiction between production and consumption. And consumption has also become a powerful driving force to promote the development of production in the whole society.

To expand the classification of data fees and examine the consumption structure, it is necessary to scientifically classify consumption data. According to the importance of consumption materials to people's lives and the forms of people's consumption, they can be divided into the following levels: consumption materials are divided into three categories: survival materials, enjoyment materials and development materials. The means of subsistence is the necessary consumption means to compensate the necessary labor consumption of workers;

Development materials are the necessary consumption materials for labor expansion and reproduction; Enjoyment materials are consumption materials to improve the living standards of workers and meet people's enjoyment needs. Among these three categories, the means of subsistence is the basic level of consumption data, and its consumption demand elasticity is the smallest.

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