You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.

some really good points in here. he stops short of making a prediction, though... is the consumption glut going to drive us into a cedit-card-debt induced implosion, or will western culture maintain and spread its desire to have Stuff to fill every nook and cranny of its double mortgaged homes?

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