Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

My neighbor has one, so I want one too!:

Keeping up with the Jones' is a dangerous game!

I read this book about a year ago and went back to it after reading "The Two Income Trap" by Warren & Tyagi.

Affluenza is a book to be taken seriously... Why do we have to have a 100inch television when the old 27inch-er works just fine? Why do we need a 3,500 square foot McMansion in middle-class suburbia when a 1,500 square foot house will provide adequate shelter for our family? It is a sickness, and easy credit helps fuel desire to catch... more info

"Fast Food Nation" for the shop-'til-you-drop set:

Although it's been some months since I finished "Affluenza," the book has stayed with me (and hasn't at the same time: I've loaned it to many appreciative friends). One of its most significant effects was helping me achieve what no financial planning book before it had: for the first time in the decade since leaving college, I've completely paid off my credit card debt. How did "Affluenza" help me do that? Well, if you read "Fast Food Nation" and thought you'd never want another to eat another Quarter... more info

Necessary book, but somewhat heavy handed:

Affluenza is a necessary book and a valuable introduction to some of the perils of our consumer driven capitalist society. They treat consumption as a disease and the books chapter looks at symptoms like "shopping fever", "rash of bankrupticies" and the "addictive virus". The book is very accessible and is designed, like the documentary its based on, for a very wide audience. Consumption is dangerous, deadening, and ultimately destructive for our society and the first half of the book details its dangerous... more info

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