Everyone is rich by now, compared by 150 yrs ago....
No everyone has an IPHONE compared to 150 years ago, but are broke as shit and in debt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/afford-food-americans_n_1818280.htmlThe lifestyle and way of life of the west is a combination of liberalism, consumerism and capitalism. A pile of crap where children are born and raised from a young age to be consumers and while growing up to adulthood trained to be consumers.
First it's toys, videogames, for girls makeup, songs, music, movies, everything is 'fun fun fun', then clubbing, shopping, the whole life revolves around working and spending and that is all there is to the purpose of life. So my co-workers kill themselves so they can 'retire' as if you know for sure you are going to live past 60+.
Everything is about enjoying, fun and spending. It's an illusion.
It's an obsession of being a consumer.
So everything is about the latest gadget, latest toy, latest computer, latest phone, latest movie, latest song, that's how the western social model lives and breaths and the pawns in it, consumers, you, me, everybody, (although I rather not include myself), is a sheeple that works works works and spends spends spends.
But if you get slapped for a moment, no one owns that brand new car, no one owns that house, no one owns even maybe that phone they have.
It's owned by financial institutions, loans, banks, government, etc...
This whole system is sooo flawed and ready to crumble, it only takes a sudden thick and spring of a string to cause an earthquake.
Hell if interenet, google and wikipedia dissapeared today, we'd have one dumb populance who doesn't know shit about anywhere or anything. Take away everyone's smart phones, facebook, internet, google, computer, etc... you have a piece of clueless meat that was being trained to only consumme