Laurance Shames The More Factor Summary

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America is a lie. There are no resources in nature is limitless and America exists upon the confines of nature. We are all born with the lie as a Christian is born with original sin. The lie is a self perpetuating myth started by human desire of hope. Hope for more than early settlers and immigrants today are able attain where they lived. The hope America stands for is a presumed birthright of genetic opulence. This hunger for more drove millions to leave sustainability and migrate to America the land without kings. Laurance Shames, holding a Harvard MBA, depicts American consumerism in the first paragraph of “The More Factor,” as “there is no tale more American than this” (90). Suggesting having more is the American story, stitched into the very fabric of our flag. Most of the early settlers cultured the idea dreaming of vast limitless expanses of unclaimed tracts of land. In the old world the idea of a commoner attaining land was imaginable only to the rich and monarchs. Shames implied the end of having an ever expanding economy to support the idea of American prosperity passed us by over twenty years ago on black Monday (94).
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