{"id":50,"date":"2006-03-17T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/03\/17\/materialism-is-bad-for-you\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:40:57","slug":"materialism-is-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/03\/17\/materialism-is-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Materialism is Bad for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/inline\/materialism.jpg\" class=\"inline_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As the song goes, &#8220;More, more more. How do you like it, how do you like?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Aparently, we only truly like it to a point&#8211;but we&#8217;re hooked, so we can&#8217;t stop even when it becomes bad for us.<\/p>\n<p>As a follow up to my question about accelerating consumption verus enriching meaning, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/02\/08\/news\/snmat.php\">a story<\/a> from IHT about the negative side effects of an overly materialistic lifestyle.  Apparently there are limits (who knew?).  <\/p>\n<p>So this raises the question for design again: how do we balance our client obligation to help them make more money with our obligation as good people to do no harm when these two obligations find themselves at odds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the song goes, &#8220;More, more more. How do you like it, how do you like?&#8221; Aparently, we only truly like it to a point&#8211;but we&#8217;re hooked, so we can&#8217;t stop even when it becomes bad for us. As a follow up to my question about accelerating consumption verus enriching meaning, here&#8217;s a story from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}