Lars Eighner's Essay On Materialism

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Since reading Lars Eighner's essay, my views remained the same. I don’t make fun of the homeless people. I feel sorry for them that they lost their job and they don’t have a house anymore. I am not rich, I am not poor; I’m just a middle income. I live in a nice home, I am glad to be with my family, and that is very important to me. Buying some nice clothes here and it is normal for people and everybody does it once in awhile. Buying five or six sports cars is pretentious. People who are materialistic are bad because they can only take care of themselves and they only care about the money. My family is more important to me rather than being rich or poor. Therefore, I live as a middle income in my life with my family and we have been showing that we are not materialistic. My family and I are a middle-income family; neither poor nor rich. I’m okay of being …show more content…

Being materialistic is a distraction because it gives us a direction in which we focus our attention and our energy that seems to be attainable. When people become focused on materialism, they’re spending a great deal of time and energy on something that is completely apart from their intellectual and spiritual selves. We may rationalize and claim that if we obtain a certain material object then we’ll be more at peace, but that simply cannot be the case. In Lars Eighner’s essay, “On Dumpster Diving,” he criticizes the materialism of those people who are rich because they are more wasteful and tend to throw out items with no real issues. People who are very rich can live in misery, because their love of money can lead them to lose a person they love, their family can treat them very poorly, and it can lead them to a lonely life. To conclude, we may be materialistic to some extent, but there are many material goods that they can be helpful and it can be necessary to

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