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RE: Consumerism and Chuck Palahniuk

in #life7 years ago

Somebody has to teach Americans that we don't always have to have something newer, better every year. Or in the case of our upside-down economic system, every quarter.... Somewhere along the way we bought into this insane idea that everything always has to get bigger, especially sales. Having a really good year and then just repeating it — not good enough. In corporate America, the stock market is the tail that wags the dog. Growth, growth, holy growth, is the only thing that ever matters. Better than last quarter, beat expectations, eat more hamburgers.....

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

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Agreed. Although I wish these things did only apply in America, as the mentality you describe is characteristic of the most of the western world.