Philip Slater Quote

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal (ed. Beacon Press, 2016) - ISBN: 9780807041789

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable...

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable...

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable...

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable...