> But that's just US culture, European cultures are quite different Being from a "European culture" I can tell you that it most definitely is not. Materialism

> But that's just US culture, European cultures are quite different Being from a "European culture" I can tell you that it most definitely is not. Materialism is deeply encoded in our DNA, and in my opinion hoarding modern valuables is just the equivalent of our time to hoarding berries or furs or whatever else might be useful in the future. I think our production capacity ran away from us before our ability to adapt to excess developed. > And really, nobody here is forced to work till they are tired. I really just can't understand what this is supposed to mean. Are you saying there's noone in the US that is forced to work "until tired" to survive? Surely you can't be saying this.