Maybe it s the type of job you want to have, and where you want to work. When Spending Becomes You at the Egan Center. Schor, a professor of economics and women s studies at Harvard Univer-sity, spoke as part of Northeastern s Careers 2000. There is a mass overspending, Schor said. The middle class spends more than they should and more than they realize.
People fear being left behind.
For instance, if parents enroll a child into one class a week, they may think this is fine. When parents find out that other children are taking three or four classes a week, they will enroll their child into four classes just to keep up with the other children. What we consider to be a basic necessity, costs the am-ount acquired for our class structure, she said. The goods that we have convey a meaning about us, Schor said. What I wear, where I live and what I drive portrays us in a social function.