More – Not Less – Materialism

Americans are uniquely infected with “affluenza” according to authors John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor, and David Horsey.1   They claim Americans confuse “the good life” with “the goods life,” spending more than $21,000 per year on consumer goods.  This disease contributes to our credit card indebtedness tripling in the 1990s, more people filing…