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Affluenza How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back

John De Graaf

Explores the origins, causes, and symptoms of affluenza--society's compulsive desire to acquire--and discusses such treatment as strengthening immunity against advertising and minimizing the side effects of over-consumption.

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Modern Wisdom

The hosts referred to a book calledAffluenza, which discusses the link between television watching and overspending.

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there was a book out called affluenza and they could track the amount of television you watched. In other words, the advertisements that you consumed, the more tele more hours of television you watch,...

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The hosts referred to a book calledAffluenza, which discusses the link between television watching and overspending.

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there was a book out called affluenza and they could track the amount of television you watched. In other words, the advertisements that you consumed, the more tele more hours of television you watch, the more credit card debt you had and the more overspending you did.

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