Hear, hear!

[patphil]

17. We've all been subject to the hard sell of a consumption based world.

Everything is "new and improved". You're told that this, that, or the other thing you buy will make you stronger, smarter, sexier, happier.
Immense amounts of money are spent to steer your purchases in a given direction to benefit the seller. Essentially our economy is constructed based on wants, not needs; wants you are programmed to have.
Very often the result is economic slavery. We over extend our debt to get those things we have "just got to have"; things that will make us happy.
All to often the happiness part doesn't fulfill it's promise.
The pandemic gave us a time out to re-evaluate what really matters in our lives.

Mohamad Safa has really hit the nail on the head.
I love his statement that we live in a society, not an economy.
A lot to think about in these words.