Do you think affluenza is a kind of “social disease” as the name implies?

Each question must have at least a 250 word response. The readings for these questions are listed below.
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Readings
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Introduction: The Consumer, the Laborer, the Capitalist, and the Nation-State in the Society of Perpetual Growth, (pages 1-11)
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Chapter 1: Capitalism and the Making of the Consumer, (pages 12-35)
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Chapter 2: The Laborer in the Culture of Capitalism, (pages 36-58)
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PART 1
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1. How does the history of affluenza relate to the main points Robbins makes in Chapter 1 about the consumer?
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2. Do you think affluenza is a kind of “social disease” as the name implies? If you have it, do you want to be cured? Why or why not?
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PART 2
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1. How is commodity fetishism related to the issue of sweatshops?
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2. Who works in sweatshops and why? How are sweatshops related to the culture of capitalism today and in the past?
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