If the author is going to over apply a new idea she's found, she should go all the way.

Consumption isn't just buying things. It's the media, food, drink, and substances you consume as well. Sitting in an empty house watching videos/playing games on your phone all day is just as vacant of a lived life than filling your time with shopping and products.

The real spiritual problem is not having hobbies or interests, or only having surface level versions of those two things.