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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Credit card debt-free in 2003....:

As a young professional who is lucky enough to make more than most people my age, I was perpetually frustrated by my inability to save. When I whine about the vicious work-and-spend way I was living my life, most of my friends would tell me to just shut the hell up because they simply don't understand how someone with my income could have a difficult time "just keeping up."

And then I read "the Overspent American." Now everything is starting to come together. I'm no different than most people in my... more info

A for analysis, D- for solution:

This book is the continued conversation started by Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class which argued that in affluent societies spending becomes the vehicle through which people establish social position. "The conspicuous display of wealth and leisure is the marker that reveals a man's income to the outside world." Veblen's conspicuous consumption evolved into James Duesenberry "keeping up with the Joneses" and finally to Schor's overspent American who has more but *feels* poorer.

The book... more info

Wake up and smell the exhaust:

This book was pretty good, although I enjoyed Affluenza a little more. Many Americans come off online as spoiled babies who can never get enough, as is seen by reviews for this book. They get their opinions from Talk Radio and television, because they are incapable of thinking for themselves. They deny and placate away any guilt because they would rather be a soul-less consumer than a responsible human being. It is not liberal to care for the environment; it is smart. If you're smart, you surely would know... more info

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