materialism
More money, more problems is as true as it gets. Americans today own twice as many cars and eat out twice as much per person. We see an increasing number of self- storage facilities to house the things we keep buying. But that's what we do buy. it doesn't matter what we buy, just buy. It doesn't matter if you don't have the money, just buy. Our civilization now has the assumption that, no matter what happens, we must continue to buy lots of things. Buy what you don't need with money you don't have.