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Even a type 2 would be post consumerism. At that point there is so much free or nearly free energy combined with interplanetary travel allowing for effectively limitless resources such that automation can fully satisfy all human desires.
But even that is a primitive understanding of consumerism where the perceived driving force behind it is the needs and wants of the masses. In reality consumerism is driven by the need to incentivize the masses to work. It is a means of control. In actuality consumerism dies when automation is sufficient to satisfy the needs of the elite. At that point the masses are culled. That point may be upon us already.
This is such a simple concept that hardly anyone is capable of comprehending. Most people fail to realize that the average person is worth nothing without their ability to do some type of labor or work. Take the need for labor away and the need for the average person also goes away.
It goes away the other way around, too. Take away work and the average person will waste away from depression and hedonia. Easy pleasures do not give long lasting satisfaction, and the average person lacks the capacity to seek out higher spiritual values for himself. If the upper class does not guide, or—as is the case with our civilization—activily misguides the masses, then they will favor donuts, television, sex and drugs over harder to achieve pleasures. Simply citing American obesity values is enough to support this argument.
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