[MCN] My, how we do spend...

[Lance Olsen]

The Anxiety of the $2,300-a-Night Hotel Room
Spending the equivalent of a down payment on a car for one night at the Japanese-inspired Nobu Ryokan in Malibu, the writer worried: Could he live up to his room? <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/travel/Nobu-Ryokan-Malibu.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage>
Travel NY Times
May 3


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Standard of living versus life on Earth. 
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“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause.”
 
Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger

Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017

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“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. 

“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. 

"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”

Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt>

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“The American way of life is not negotiable.”

George H. W. Bush. 1992

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"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior that is at the annihilating edge."

R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. 
1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House

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