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Analyses: Spend and Save
Title: Analyses: Spend and Save
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 685 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Analyses: Spend and Save
Do We Spend or Do We Save?
“We get two sets of messages coming at us every day. One says, buy, spend, get it now, indulge yourself. The other says, work hard, save defer gratification, curb your impulses.” claims Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich, a widely respected author of social issues, ponders the question ‘‘what are we supposed to do?” in her essay “Spend and Save”. In her quest to answer that question, Ehrenreich takes an objective …showed first 75 words of 685 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 685 total…two completely opposite messages. One persuasive, to spend, to indulge ourselves, to buy what we want; and the other that urges us to be smart, work hard and save up. This constant exposure of these contradictory messages has psychological consequences. She warns that the path of self-indulgence and consumerism leads to pretty quickly to financial ruins and that, in American society, there isn't much of a safety net to catch you if you fall.
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