What $10,990 bought in 1955....

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29. "But what is the great bulk of advertising other than the stimulation of greed, envy and avarice?'

EF Schumacher, Good Work, p. 26

"The idea that each individual should pursue his own private interests without regard to the needs of the community, that community needs will be taken care of automatically if that occurs; the idea that people's wants are self-generated and autonomous, not shaped by social forces; the idea that people have a right to keep what is 'theirs' and the denial that differentials in wealth are a function of particular social arrangements rather than a simple matter of hard work, initiative, or capacity; the effort to solve social problems by an accumulation of separate individual choices and a suspicion of collective efforts; the failure to recognize how much individual well being o individual commitments depend on a social matrix and on feedback from others - it is these kinds of individualism that I find troublesome, not a concern with individual liberty, fulfillment, uniqueness, or intrinsic worth. In some respects it might be best if the same word was not even used for the two clusters, if perhaps the first were designated as a concern with individuality and the second atomism." Paul Wachtel, The poverty of affluence, pp 138-39