
Once you buy in to the propaganda known as the American Dream, there is virtually no limit to the bullshit you'll apologize for.
We are daily bombarded with variants of the “Consumption is 7/10 of the economy” argument. Governments constantly monitor spending, and they encourage people to spend rather than save or invest, because consumption spending is a necessity for debt-based currency. They know that the only way the system can continue is if people continue spending, mindlessly. But that doesn’t make a people rich (OK, it might make some people rich, but you are not one...