Materialism

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The paper emphasizes how Americans are robbed of their freedom, their money, and their identity because they're fooled into buying many pointless, and often times very expensive products that they don't really need.

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"As he pulled the neatly packaged I pod off of the shelf, he thought to himself, "This is it, this will make me happy, this is exactly what I need." A few minutes, and a few hundred dollars later, it was his, and he thought he would never be happier. For a short while, it did do exactly what he wanted it to do, and he was ecstatic. He spent hours playing with his new possession, but as time went on, it's newness wore off, and his interest in it slowly faded away. From time to time, he still used it, but it no longer made him as joyful as it used to. He had moved on to the next overpriced item, and the I pod was thrown onto a shelf, next to all of his other previous purchases; the DVD player, the cell phone, the laptop, the digital camera, and many others. Over time, he had spent many hours, and thousands of dollars buying item after item, but nothing ever made him happy for more than a few days, so the cycle would start all over again, with a few more hundred dollars, and a new object that promises happiness."

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