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Patterns of Prosperity - Coggle Diagram
Patterns of Prosperity
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Production and Work
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Rachel Carson, The Silent Spring, 1962
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Consumption
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Galbraith (The Affluent Society, 1958) and the synthesising of wants.
Spoof article in The Onion: 'Your Neighbors May Not be Consuming Enough Material Goods: Watch Them Carefully and Report any Suspected Non-Consumers to the Proper Authorities. Help Rid America of Anti-Purchasing Subversives'.
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Suburbanisation
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1930 - 1/3 of Americans owned their own homes. By 1950, 2/3 owned their own homes.
1945 - 25m registered car owners, 1963 - 69m. Huge increase!
By 1950, a fifth of suburban families had two cars.
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The Invisible Poor
C.Wright Mills in the Power Elite: 'The idea of a really wide distribution of economic ownership is a cultivated illusion; at the very best, 0.2% of 0.3% [about 300,000 out of 150m people] own the bulk of the pay-of shares of the corporate world.'
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Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962