This book is worth a read: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-price-materialism https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-price-materialism Tim Kasser, The High Pri

This book is worth a read: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-price-materialism https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/high-price-materialism Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism It discusses studies on how materialistic desires relate to one's emotional well-being (all correlative, as I recall), and then goes from there into a thoughtful analysis of how materialism alters a person's priorities in a variety not-so-healthy ways. I found it to be a pretty good reality check.