Erhm, you can't be addicted to cheap goods if cheap goods don't exist. People weren't any less materialistic in the 60's they just had less cheap stuff to buy.

Erhm, you can't be addicted to cheap goods if cheap goods don't exist. People weren't any less materialistic in the 60's they just had less cheap stuff to buy. Business push prices down to make more money not because they have to satiate rabid consumers.