AFFLUENZA

A movement to resist the spectacle of affluence and engage in the simplicity of festive living. There was an excellent PBS Special:
• All About Affluenza (press here)
• Last year, Americans, who make up only five percent of the world's population, used nearly a third of its resources and produced almost half of its hazardous waste.
• Escape from Affluenza (press here). PBS On Line.
• Kay McFadden / Times TV columnist July 6, 1998  PBS' `Escaping Affluenza' offers cure for consumerism (press here)
• At 31, Joe Dominguez retired from a job as a technical stock analyst on Wall Street. He left with a nest egg of about $70,000 and had lived on the investment income ever since -- about $6,000 a year. Dominguez and his partner Vicki Robin co-authored the Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence (press here for interview).
• Take the Affluenza On Line Quiz (press here).
• See Facts on Shared Capitalism http://www.sharedcapitalism.org/scfacts.html; Book is at  http://www.sharedcapitalism.org/book.html