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event, buy the newest car models and the latest fashions. Some of this is fine, but as we pursue higher and higher standards of material wealth, we drift from the original pursuit of happiness our forefathers envisioned. Soon people are working to SUPPORT their wealth. It's a bit of a clich, and it's been said before, but an increasing number of people are living to work instead of working to live. For example, that new car could have been put off, but now it requires the owner to work a second job. That smaller house was perfectly suited to the space requirements of that small family, but now they are stressed out, trying to pay for a few extra hundred dollars' worth of electricity bills in order to provide lighting and heat to extra, unneeded rooms. And what is all that extra room really for anyway? Most likely, much of it is used to store accumulated toys and random junk collected over the years.

If you have the money to blow, I suppose it really doesn't matter how big your house is. I suppose it also doesn't matter how much your car costs, or your clothes, or your facials at the salonMy main point here is that enough is never enough in our out-of-control consumer culture. We have lost the ability to effectively lead sustainable lives. Stress has multiplied everywhere, and it doesn't seem to me to be worth the price to be more stressed and worried in a larger house or more expensive car.

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