1. "Our enormously productive economy... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and the use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, discarded at an ever increasing rate." To what extent do you consider that consumption has become a way of life? Illustrate your views from your own observation and analysis of the expectations of people today.
2. In the political sphere, it is often assumed that happiness follows from increased income. Is that assumption correct? In giving your views, give a broad outline of what you understand by happiness, and those things which are essential to its achievement.
