Three Things That Money Cannot Buy - "Retail Therapy"

 According to Dr. Madeline Levine, spending can  become "retail therapy" that gives people a measure of comfort world where family, community, and church have failed them.  "Shopping  is one way to control our environment," she writes in the Price of Privilege.  "It puts us in charge of transactions and confers a sense of power on the buyer.  This type of power is illusory . . . The real power is being exerted by large corporations and their advertisers, who are paid to suggest that consumer goods confer magical and protective powers on buyers." 

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