I feel like we all know this but we don’t know it.
We can’t buy our way to happiness1.
Certainly, we act like we don’t know this and engage in dumb behaviors anyway.
Times Square (pictured above) with its flashing billboards screaming for you to buy-buy-buy — the obsession with consumption surrounds us all
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