According to John de Graaf in his book, "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic," the average American household carried a credit-card debt of $7,654 in the year 2000. Our supermarkets provide us an average choice of 30,000 items, about two and a half times the number of choices available in 1980. We now boast four times as many self-storage units as we stuffed in the 1960’s. De Graf claims America’s 102 million households are bursting with
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