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Originally Posted by ADL Colin
With the real standard of living increasing about 2% per year for the past few hundred years the western world is moving from needs to wants. All of this because of changes in productivity and technology (industrial revolution, digital revolution and so on). It's ok to "want".
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Sure, wanting is normal and if you have the means to provide it for yourself I don't see a big problem with it. If you work hard to earn your money and want something nice from it, fine. What bugs me is when you see people who get obsessed with owning things and they make sure everyone knows they own that stuff. It is when your possessions define you that trouble sets in. A friend of mine has about $250 in her savings account, otherwise she lives paycheck to paycheck yet she owns over 300 pair of shoes and has spent around 30K getting them. Many of them have never been worn and never will be. Others got worn once or twice. But she has them and loves talking about them. To me there were much better ways to spend that 30K.