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   vicariousviper said, about 1 year ago

   yep pretty much sums that up.

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   HUMPHRIES said, about 1 year ago

   And the dissapointing thing is that too many people don’t want to change.

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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   Makes sense. Living over our means has long been seen as a constitutional right, not only in the States, but also in the rest of the World.

   You need money, always more money. Why? To get more money. Why? So people will know you have money. People will love and respect you if you have money! You can’t play piano? Buy a grand piano anyways, get three computers. People will know you have money and you’ll know you have more stuff than others. If you have more stuff, it means you’re “worth” more than them. You’ll have money, you’ll be important.

   That’s the old school american dream, isn’t it?

   To some people (namely the “Get a job, ya bum! croud” not to name names…)income seems to be the sole measure of someone’s value; to them, if you have money, that means you’re smart, willing to work. While to some women if you have expensive clothes and stuff, that means you’re hot enough for a rich man to “pay” to be with you. The biggest insult they can think of is someone having a bigger and better RV or laptop or wearing the same dress.

   Some say it’s the people’s fault that they lived a life they can’t afford, but who pushed their envy into overdrive? Who created that bling-bling-I’m-richer-than-you- culture in place? And who gave them the credit cards and loans for them to binge on?

   This is a crisis of consumerism. When you come to think about it, maybe we needed something like that to put back our feet on the ground.

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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   Capitalism (not that socialism is better)has every interest to keep people unhappy and in need of something so they can seek that somethink in something you can buy.(Buy toothpaste! You’ll have white teeth, be beautiful and people will love you. Buy SuperThingy! You’ll impress your friends!) If people were told to be just happy with what they have, sales of disposable, eye-popping bleeep would decrease and (horror!) the economy would too.

   Is the system there for us or are we there for the system?

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   jimbo90036 said, about 1 year ago

   75% of Americans unhappy with how things are going.

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   lalas said, about 1 year ago

   How many of that 75% will reject the unsustainable consumerism to which CF refers?

   5% would be a high guess in my book.