It's an interest effect indeed: social poverty. As a kid in the 80s we owned close to nothing. But nobody did and we just made the best of it. I never felt poo

It's an interest effect indeed: social poverty. As a kid in the 80s we owned close to nothing. But nobody did and we just made the best of it. I never felt poor because this simply was the living standard of the time and our objective needs were met. It seems since then we simply invented a whole lot of extra "needs", which really are "wants".