I wonder what people might not consider as essential items in life. Pleasure boats, vacation homes, make-up, beer, televisions, sound systems, movies, the list is probably pretty long and would certainly be contested.
I wonder what we might achieve if we all agreed not to stop buying these “luxuries” but rather to spend half again as much of what we spend on any of these things on finding real and lasting solutions to issues that affect all of humankind, like curing cancer, ending hunger and persistent starvation, providing crisis response teams around the world for natural disasters, etc.? And most of all I wonder who would feel best about all of that? And by the way, I wonder what impact it might have on the economy? (I think I may have over-momented myself!)
