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Julie Schor's The Overspent American by Theresa Forsman - 1998

How does buying a BMW, a Rolex, or a golf club membership affect your life and others' lives? You might say the car is safe transportation, the watch is a reliable timepiece -- one you've wanted since graduate school and that you've earned with all those late nights at the office. You might see the golf club membership as necessary for someone in your line of work, where deals are done on Saturdays at the 19th hole. Few of us come right out and admit, even to ourselves, that what we're buying is status. And few of us have calculated the true price of such status symbols.

June 2011 - Ethical Action Report by Staff - 2011
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The June Issue addresses the following topics: Support the EPA and End Mountaintop Coal Mining Demand High Ethical Standards from, or closure of, WHINSEC Join the IHEU and Demand an End to International Blasphemy Laws End the War in Afghanistan

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