In sum, its keeping up with the Jonesees despite one's ability to afford to. Madison Avenue rarely sells you what you need, but rather what it tells you what you think you need. Hence, you may desire to check self right now. Amerikkka has brainwashed its masses. It had doped the middle class with materialism, prozac and thirty second soundbites that sell the capitalist ideology.
Anarchists agree that capitalism is a crime.
Hard to ignore are the dying masses of poor in other countries contrasted with the fat cats who have more money than they could ever reasonbaly hope to spend. It is the latter who control all the wealth, but it is you, dear reader, who labors to proviide them their wealth. In return you are provided with a measely pittance that barely gets you through the week. I suggest you think revolution. Reforms won't work.