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The Affluent Society (1958)
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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have won office.
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One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that creates the wants.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.
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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
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In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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Born:
October 15, 1908
Died:
April 29, 2006
(aged 97)
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