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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Postindustrial productivity gains have fostered a widespread addiction to consumption today.
Chapter 3: We attempt to offset our unhappiness with purchases, yet in the end it leaves us feeling worse.
Chapter 4: Overconsumption’s effects on the environment are devastating.
Chapter 5: Though the poor suffer most from affluenza, inequality harms us all too.
Chapter 6: Overconsumption isn’t “human nature,” and philosophers have long consistently argued against it throughout recorded history.
Chapter 7: Overconsumption has been systematically enabled.
Chapter 8: Ubiquitous advertising and PR tactics constantly lure us into craving more stuff.
Chapter 9: You can live a happier life by cutting down your overall consumption.
Chapter 10: Media education and subversion are needed to immunize us against the affluenza virus.
Description
This book is about our serious addiction to consumption: affluenza. Since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve become addicted to shopping, believing we can buy happiness. Affluenza affects us and our society like a disease, and this book offers advice on how we can immunize ourselves against it.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in sociology
- Anyone interested in media
- Anyone interested in curing our addiction to consumption