pdotb quoted Post Growth by Tim Jackson
"The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – …
Discontentment is the motivation for our restless desire to spend. Consumer products must promise paradise. But they must systematically fail to deliver it. They must fail us, not occasionally, as psychologists have observed, but repeatedly. The success of consumer society lies not in meeting our needs but in its spectacular ability consistently to disappoint us.
— Post Growth by Tim Jackson (Page 91)