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In a highly materialistic society like the US, where people measure their own and each other's worth by the kind of car they drive, the neighborhood and house t
by gnosis 14y ago
In a highly materialistic society like the US, where people measure their own and each other's worth by the kind of car they drive, the neighborhood and house they live in, whether they're still living with their parents past college age, whether they even own a car at all, what kind of clothes they wear, etc, I don't think you'd be going out on a limb to suggest that poverty causes depression.
Of course, the reverse no doubt holds true as well: depression can make holding (or even wanting to hold) a job much more difficult, if not impossible.
- jisaacstone 14y agocompared to other modern societies the US is at best mil-level materialistic. (probably calling the entire US a 'society' is a misnomer) I'd be interested to see a graph of materialism to happiness (though both are fuzzy and difficult to measure) I'd guess there is a negative correlation, but I don't have the data!
- JohnnyBrown 14y agoThis is really interesting to me. How do you compare societies in terms of their materialism? Which are the most/least materialistic?