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The art of turning desire into garbage, one purchase at a time.
old nameTuberculosis was called consumption for devouring bodies from within
economic engineConsumer spending drives about 70 percent of US GDP
conspicuous versionVeblen named buying purely to flaunt wealth in 1899
planetary costHumanity uses 1.7 Earths worth of resources yearly
the paradoxMore stuff correlates weakly with more happiness