Money and Materialism

How we secretly desire the things we profess not to need.

Aaron Mayer
4 min readJul 5, 2020

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It’s not fashionable these days to be outwardly materialistic.

Over the last decade, we’ve been inundated with anti-materialist messages of inner worth. We’ve been told that living simply is living richly.

Marie Kondo swept the world with minimalism, CEOs wear jeans and tee shirts, and our eco-conscious generation is much more mindful of excess.

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