Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The people before the 1960's were not part of the mass consumerism. The poverty faced in the world before brought happier people, but now that much of the world can take part of buying large amounts of superflous items. The "Affluenza" disease has created a world vacuum that may possibly consume the world in a rampant devourment of everyone's wallets and happiness.
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Interesting, isn't it, that even in Franklin's time mankind struggled with wanting more.
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