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| 8155511 | We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent -- people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. | philosophy economics-philosophy modern-society consumerism psychology | Erich Fromm | |
| da1e180 | Don't you know there's another bubble as well? An expectations bubble. Bigger houses, private planes, yachts... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well, as all bubbles do. | economics-philosophy money-versus-happiness need-versus-want economics desire expectations | Edward Rutherfurd |