Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:43 pm
I thought this was very relevant to themes of ERE. If you're short on time, check out chapter 8, which contains the following passage:
"Here's the story of those [negative personal savings, pre-crash] years in our consumer society: The story of us being encouraged--persuaded, perhaps--to spend money we don't have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people who we don't care about, or worse still, who don't care about us."
"Here's the story of those [negative personal savings, pre-crash] years in our consumer society: The story of us being encouraged--persuaded, perhaps--to spend money we don't have on things we don't need, to create impressions that won't last, on people who we don't care about, or worse still, who don't care about us."