What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on… — Daniel Bell
What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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