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“Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.”

Source: Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study

“O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Giving America Class Taken Mass Luxury Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.”

States America United United States Objects Produce Population Luxury Wealthy Civilized United States Of America

Book:Manual of political economy

Source: Manual of political economy

“Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.”

Art America Luxury

Author:Hallie Flanagan