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Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

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Philip Slater
Age: 86 †
Born: 1927
Born: May 15
Died: 2013
Died: June 20
Sociologist
Stage Actor
Writer
Riverton
New Jersey
Philip Elliot Slater
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Billions
Make
Spending
Things
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People
Economy
Happiness
Viable
Jobs
Insisting
Money
Persuade
Enough
Buying

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