Atajan Atabayev. Essays - Emotions, Anti-corporate Activism

Atajan Atabayev. Jessica Brown. English 1 A. 13 February 2017. Buy Yourself Less Stuff Summary. All Humans enjoy spending money and desire to purchase new stuff such as a car, home, phone which they think will fulfill their expectation and add their life a bit happiness. However, people have a problem to invest money for the things which will improve their quality of life and make their happiness long lasting. To prove that fact nearly forty years ago, Richard Einstein which is the economist at the University of Southern California, examined people's carnal desire and how can it affect their life after having things they expected to have in their life. After gathering opinions, Easterlin discovered the cause of the unhappiness and It was a desire to have more things from life people can acquire which make them blind and turn their life never ending loop. In the article, Dunleavy brings to types of consumption. First is conspicuous consumption which drives as to buy more useless stuff and another is Inconspicuous consumption which is buying less stuff and using your money to improve the quality of your life and enjoy your life. First, Author talks about conspicuous consumption which is the result of our unhappiness. People in this attitude wants more materialistic stuff than nonmaterialistic stuff. Hence, humans adapt all the worldly things around them so fast and after sometimes they want even more mundane stuff, new stuff and better stuff. It doesn't matter how much you earn after sometimes you started to think would like more than you are currently making at your job. As Author believe monetary cycle never ends and distract you from genuine happiness, because We can be happy without nothing, but our brain wants all the best things made in the World to compete with other people instead they don't want to have all that things. However, people want to show other people how much money they do have and how many things they can purchase On the other hand, Inconspicuous humans enjoy simple things around them which makes them happy and we don't have to spend more money instead simple things give us joy and make us connected to each other. Dunleavy explains we have to pay money for the experience, not for the stuff. For example, instead of living big house, it is better to live in the small house and use bunch amount of money to go travel or spend your time with your friends. If we spend less money, it means we have more free time than our wealthy neighbor whose working 80 hours afford expensive Tesla. Instead, we can spend such a time with our family and enjoy a. We can also learn different skills such as cooking, playing piano instead of sitting in the front of the computer to make extra 40 $ an hour to buy new watch end of the day. At the end of the day, experiences make us happy. Money is also a great tool if we know how to spend it right. We have to pay it to realize our dreams, to learn new skills, enjoy new countries with our loved ones instead of buying new stuff which can't give us long lasting happiness.