When I was reading Jane Bennett’s book I found it intriguing because she mentions materialism and her views on it. I would like to say that since capitalism is the greatest economic creation in history … I find it only logical to way to accumulate as much wealth as one possibly can while they are alive. I think there is nothing wrong with wanting a lot of things if you can buy them because you have earned them, but if you can buy a lot of things you should also feel obligated to help out the environment in any way possible. Instead of buying 12 luxury cars why not buy the equivalent in trees and plant them and have your own forest, which in my opinion is much cooler because it’s a freaking forest and it helps the environment. Materialism in its essence is just the accumulation of a material object; its not necessarily evil since it can mean more than one type of wealth, I just want to clear up what a material is, and I think it is anything that one can accumulate and has a monetary value so that can include trees, cars, watches, plants or anything that is sellable to a person.
