...yes..the americans of the last half of the 20th century have become credit jerks ( not me...i have no debt..i live quite simply )...but everybody else
just buys stuff to hide their misery...but then if the ethopians were all rich i think they would eventually do the same...the problem is the human condition...without meaning in your life you shop, eat, etc...the simple life
requires an interior life...i could change this but i am afraid only the cossacks of russia and the mormons would hang my picture over their fireplace after i was killed by a mob outside of the department store...