Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. (Tim Jackson)

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Tim Jackson

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