Consumed: why more stuff does not mean more happiness

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Consumed: why more stuff does not mean more happiness: Consumed: why more stuff does not mean more happiness. Consumption. By a strange shift of meaning, this 19th-century word describing a serious and often fatal disease is the same word used now for a way of life focused on material goods. Is it time to bring back its negative, and often deadly, associations into our public discourse?

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