Shopping is a loop of loneliness!

[tomsang]

Interesting article, the title is much more user friendly than the research paper's title of Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle

http://t.nbcnews.com/business/shopping-loop-loneliness-study-finds-6C10904966

[Oscar_C]

I see this an effect of living in a materialistic society. If anything can be bought, so can happiness.

We buy it to make us happy, it doesn't work, we try harder (buy more) and we keep going at it.

It's actually kind of sad for those who aren't self-aware.