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Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
by ryan is the supernicety at 2:52 pm EST, Dec 14, 2003

QUOTE: What's your reaction? Laughing? Loathing? Finebut be careful. Because the truth is, if average Americans of even 30 to 40 years ago could see us today, they'd think we were all spoiled just as rotten as any young Trump, Newhouse, or Bloomberg.

You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.

COMMENT: Good point. All people like to bitch and a disappointing number of people are clueless about basic life issues.

RE: Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
by flynn23 at 5:01 pm EST, Dec 17, 2003

ryan is the supernicety wrote:

] COMMENT: Good point. All people like to bitch and a
] disappointing number of people are clueless about basic life
] issues.

I think this is a more important point than the rafter out of your own eye before the straw out of Paris'.

It sounds odd to say this, but we are _suffering_ from overubundance. You look at everything that is impacting our society today, from consumerism to war to obesity to intellectual property wars. It's all a sign of overabundance. We have too much information, too much stuff, too much money, and not enough time or motivation or need to survive. It's certainly strange to look back at all of human history and see nothing but the drive to even survive dominate it, and today we're faced with an entire generation of people who are fat, lazy, stupid, and powerful.

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
by PrimeNumbers at 1:57 pm EST, Dec 17, 2003

What's your reaction? Laughing? Loathing? Finebut be careful. Because the truth is, if average Americans of even 30 to 40 years ago could see us today, they'd think we were all spoiled just as rotten as any young Trump, Newhouse, or Bloomberg.

Hrm, I have two TV's, though only one in use, but I don't get cable and don't miss it... I don't have a car... I cook at home way more often than I eat out...

But I do own somewhere around $2,000 of makeup. Nevermind.

Hi. My name is Paris. Pleased to meet you ::giggle::

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton
by k at 4:37 pm EST, Dec 17, 2003

some really good points in here. he stops short of making a prediction, though... is the consumption glut going to drive us into a cedit-card-debt induced implosion, or will western culture maintain and spread its desire to have Stuff to fill every nook and cranny of its double mortgaged homes?

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton by flynn23 at 5:03 pm EST, Dec 17, 2003
What's your reaction? Laughing? Loathing? Finebut be careful. Because the truth is, if average Americans of even 30 to 40 years ago could see us today, they'd think we were all spoiled just as rotten as any young Trump, Newhouse, or Bloomberg. You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.
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