Our Consumer Culture

The pursuit of money is a never ending chase,
With more to spend there’s more to spend on,
With more to spend on there’s less to be happy about.
True riches are in satisfaction with your position in life, whatever it may be.

We live in a consumer culture, where we might have the greatest thing ever today, only to be overshadowed by the next invention tomorrow. Those 200$ sneakers you bought today are only cool until next week those 50$ shoes become the new trend. And the more money you have the more you can afford to adapt to these changes for social acceptance and temporary personal satisfaction. But if you have nothing you have the gift of not being a week long fad. Consuming is a addiction (and shopping’s already shown to be), if we have freedom of choice you have freedom to purchase into the culture as it changes continually. And since being broke is never in style there you are once again chasing to attain more paper, to start the cycle all over again.