Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Week 8 - Affluenza

Post your thoughts about the following topic after watching the documentary "Affluenza"

How do you think excessive consumerism effected the current economic situation? Think about the following:
Real Estate Values
Debt
Unemployment

6 comments:

  1. i think that the excessive consumerism lead to our current economic because a lot of people were spending money that they just didn't have and big corporations were taking advantage of this for profit.

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  2. i think that people send money on things they really do not need that is why our country is doing good at all. if we didnt buy a lot of stupid things we wouldnt be doing that bad.

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  3. people usally buy something because they get board and just buy stuff with out thinking about it, they really don't need to buy shoes, and etc that is over 100 dollors

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  4. people get bored with there money and then the see some crazy comercial on somthing to buy and they get suckered into there scam

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  5. Excessive consumerism is one of the main reasons why this country is in so much debt. Because of this large corporations take advantage of this to rake in profits.

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  6. people get bored of the stuff they have so they go out and buy stuff they dont need

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