Peter Whybrow: “When More is Not Enough”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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How Much of Our Consumption Is Related to Our Culture?
Soleme: How much of our consumption is because we're comparing ourselves to the joneses or cardasians? Almost all of it. Studies show that after a certain income, one's sense of life and of fulfilment in life does not go up. It doesn't go up with income menom. We diminish the idea that it's a community by calling it a trailer park. But the same thing happened in the slums of london. They seemed to be poor, and they were in some regards materially, but they weren't poor in terms of the connections that they had with each other. And so i think that that, again, is a lesson. I mean
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