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Why do we tend to identify ourselves by our consumption?

Asked by The_Compassionate_Heretic (14634points) May 24th, 2009

At least in the west, people are so often characterized by what they buy.
Phones, computers, music, food, alcohol, clothes, cars… invariably people are judged to an extent by what they spend their money on. Is that any measure of what makes a person, a person?

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