HK Shopping Mall, a photo by betta design on Flickr.
'Nineteenth century economists predicted that the abundance made possible by technological advances and the modern organisation of work would result in the emergence of 'post-materialist' humans - people existing on a higher plane, where their cultural, intellectual and spiritual powers are refined.
But instead of witnessing the end of economics we live in a time when economics and its concerns are more dominant than ever before.
People in affluent countries are now even more obsessed with money and material acquisition, and the richer they are the more this seems to be the case.'
http://www.clivehamilton.com/books/affluenza/
http://www.affluenza.org/
