We Define This Movement

Ultimately, it's our choices that count.

[manmadedisease-blog]

[tedx]

Maybe the reason that money doesn’t make us happy is that we’re always spending it on the wrong things, and in particular, that we’re always spending it on ourselves. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. The implication is not, you should buy this product instead of that product and that’s the way to make yourself happier. It is, in fact, that you should stop thinking about which product to buy for yourself and try giving some of it to other people instead. Think less about, ‘How can I spend money on myself?’ and more about, ‘If I’ve got five dollars or 15 dollars, what can I do to benefit other people?’ Because ultimately, when you do that, you’ll find that you’ll benefit yourself much more.

On this Cyber Monday, we don’t have any promo codes or delivery drones, but what we do have is pretty awesome: the super smart Harvard Business professor Michael Norton talking about how to buy happiness.

In his talk, Michael shares years of research on how money affects our happiness, revealing that buying that present for your mom might be healthier than you think.

Watch his whole talk here»

(via tedx)

[unmondesanspourquoi]

[kalindeevan-blog]

and yet, we still buy it all.

[theresagreen14-blog]

[kalindeevan-blog]

Choose to create, not buy. 

[lordequotes]

Rich People plan for three generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night.

Lorde, on Royals (via lordequotes)

Interesting; could have a lot of different meanings. What's your take on it?

[pufftatty]

[djstoa]

[kalindeevan-blog]

More from the Walmart strike; awesome images.

[kalindeevan-blog]

image from tumblr user notesfortheunderground

[pursuingwitheagerfeet]

[the-promised-wlan]

The Circle of Death.

[muddy-roots]

[kalindeevan-blog]

The twisted truth behind the holidays!

[thenonprophet]

One More Thing

[evokit-notes]

Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.

Victor Lebow 1955 (via evokit-notes) 

~ Pretty much the start of "consumerism." 

[cartoonpolitics]

" ..more Americans are now living in poverty than ever before and .. wealth and income inequality in the United States is now greater than in any other major country.. with the gap between the very rich and everyone else growing wider and wider.” ~ Senator Bernie Sanders

[kalindeevan-blog]

Wealth distribution in our world is one of the most unequal things I have ever encountered. 

[cartoonpolitics]

[kalindeevan-blog]

One of life's many questions: why do we work so hard??!?

[cartoonpolitics]

“We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are the same. Like somehow the rich will eventually get so full that they’ll explode. And the candy will rain down on the rest of us. Like there’s some kind of pinata of benevolence. But here’s the thing about a pinata: it doesn’t open on it’s own. You have to beat it with a stick.” ~ Bill Maher

[kalindeevan-blog]

Speaks to a lot of the inequality in the worlds economics! (Trickle-down basically means when the poorest people benefit from the increasing wealth of the richest people)

[manmadedisease-blog]

Happy Holidays= politically correct.

Merry Christmas= what we think is the truth.

Happy make-your-kids-into-greedy-little-materialistic-consumption-addicts Day= the unfortunate reality.

[jessicafresca28]

This made me laugh, so true!

[kalindeevan-blog]

And it's not like we can deny it! :O