Can money make you happy?

The obsession with material things is creating a warped society.

Is the desire to acquire material things to keep up with the Joneses creating a warped society? The columnist Camilla Cavendish thinks so.

She'd vaguely hoped, she says in The Sunday Times, that the recession might have brought about a permanent damping down of materialism, a "reassessment of what really matters". Instead, we seem to be entering a new era "of the conspicuously pointless gift.

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