Essay On Pros And Cons Of Spending

The spending habit

Consumption of materialistic things has dramatically risen and the demand for it has increased in these past decades. Everybody wants the latest technology, before we know it, the new Iphone that came out a year ago is already outdated. Wanting to stay “cool” by keeping up with the new tech just got even more frustrating and expensive. Consumerism has it’s pros and it’s cons just like about everything else, it affects everybody differently. Being “broke” is becoming more and more common, working long stressful hours never really pays off does it? Well you may be thinking that it does, when you temporarily see a couple hundred dollars in your bank account, but before you know it, you treated yourself on your day off of work to some lunch and dinner but also decided to go window shopping at the store because your bored and ultimately without thinking over the love of an item that your eyes caught, you’ve already spent a fraction of your hard earned money on something you don’t desperately need. The Affluenza epidemic is present and at an all time high in our society and is creating a never ending, problematic cycle which some are blind to. In this day and age many, especially teenagers are prone to experience it.
As of now, spending isn’t slowing down, in fact it’s rising dramatically, Consumption in

This is why there’s a Mcdonalds on one corner, and a Burger king down the block from it. Never has someone gone to the supermarket to find out that they ran out of their favorite cereal. It could be worse actually, imagine not having running water in your house every other day, that could be the case eventually if Americans stop spending. Our economy is like a heart pumping blood through the artery’s, if it stops then the economy collapses and stops working just like a heart