At the moment I#m taking a rest from reading the book “Affluenza – The All-Consuming Epidemic”, second edition. (New and Improved, just like in the ads). I’m wondering about where our high-tech society is really carrying us. I can see a pattern of corporate owned technology (protected by patents, just to be safe) designed to push our consumtion closer to, or even past, our limits. A credit card mayhem is wrecking havoc, creating the slave labour of the 21st century.

“A powerful virus has infected American society, threatening our wallets, our friendships, our families, our communities, and our environment. We call the virus Affluenza. And because the United States has become the economic model for most of the world, the virus is now loose on every continent”

You are susceptible to the affluenza virus; do you want to step out of the hamster wheel? (Yes / No / Cancel)

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