Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting … - Philip Slater

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I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

Philip Slater

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

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