Is Consumprism the Dominant Way of Life?

To what extent is consumerism the dominant way of life? The idea that things must be purchased like so many of our purchases are made in the name of fun. But if we have the money to spend on fun, we tend to spend the money on fund think about all the attempts to make you believe it's 'fun' Some of these things are worth doing, but are not fun. Yet again, back to the th interesting subject of varability. And i think that may be related to certain types of personality differences, even ones that you can sort of measure,. unlike a five factor personality model. Ah, we'll get more into that in a bit.