[shayway]

This hits awfully close to home -- my parents made a decent income growing up, but it was an endless cycle of buying nice houses and cars only to sell them a few years later, and somehow there was only ever barely enough for food and other necessities.

The amount of waste of even middle class earners is staggering. American culture needs to catch up with the fact that infinite growth, on both a personal and a societal level, is just not sustainable.

[dzhiurgis]

I'd say buying anything else but house + car + groceries is a waste.