Twenty years ago, ... a family spent its income on housing, clothing, food appliances, cars, a radio and a TV. Today, it will spend additional money on a DVD player, computers, fax machines, printers, several cellular phones and a whole host of other new electronic gadgets...modern society requires people to continuously enlarge the 'basket of goods' that are considered necessary to lead a 'good life.'
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