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Tim Jackson

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

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We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

Tim Jackson

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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

Tim Jackson

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The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

Tim Jackson

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Jesse Schell

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Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Emily Dickinson

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