Growth Fetish Quotes

“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.”
― Clive Hamilton, Growth Fetish

“People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.”
― Clive Hamilton, Growth Fetish

“See John Haworth, Work, Leisure and Wellbeing, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 24–5.”
― Clive Hamilton, Growth Fetish

“A doctor, for instance, is bored with his job and his family and must always have a project to keep himself entertained—a second house that needs renovation, another house at the beach, a farm outside town, an overseas trip for ‘professional development’, a share in a racehorse, extensions to the family home. This is the pattern of restless overconsumers, who deploy their wealth as a means of avoiding confrontation with the essential meaningless of life that they fear may lie just below the surface. They keep themselves amused by changing the form of their assets.”
― Clive Hamilton, Growth Fetish