I think us younger people give ourselves too much credit for not buying crap. Most of us rent instead of own our living places, live in smaller places, and mov

I think us younger people give ourselves too much credit for not buying crap. Most of us rent instead of own our living places, live in smaller places, and move more often so our possessions have shrunk because of our environment, not at all because of our ability to transcend the need to peacock our possessions to our neighbors. This article just helps to show we've replace low-minded material peacocking with low-minded social categorization and we're no better or worse at transcending our infighting hairless monkey brains than our parents.