Philip Slater - Pursuit of loneliness (1970)

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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.

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We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.

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Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

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