Tuesday 17 April 2012

Thought-provoking article on consumerism makes for uneasy reading

The consistently on-the-button Centre for Confidence and Well-Being point out some painful home truths. I agree with much of this, except the slight inference that middle class people know how to prioritise their spending, whereas the working classes do not. The middle classes are the definers of 'taste' as a concept, so they simply dress up their materialism as something morally superior, but the underlying consumerist impulses are the same.

David Harford www.harfordtherapy.com

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