Affluenza
Submitted by on January 1, 1999
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Affluenza is the unhappy condition of overload debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more, and unfortunately it is taking the nation by storm. Greed and materialism plant the seed to this dreaded disease that effects people of all classes. Today's society has imprinted the idea of "buy more" into our heads through every form of media possible. The average person will see over one million advertisements by the age of twenty. We are let on to believe that we cannot be happy without certain products or goods. "More, more, more" seems to be the motto of most Americans, but the fact is that Americans say that happiness reached it's peak in 1957. How could this be when the average household possessed less than half as much as a household today. Most garages today are larger than the average home in the 60's, Our economy cars have more than luxury cars did,...