多项选择题
A. advocateB. contentC. coreD. cycleE. debtF. deriveG. episodesH. keepingI. livingJ. luxuryK. openL. privilegeM. sakeN. striveO. websitesPeople often ask me how to get off the consumer escalator (自动扶梯). Step one is to begin to control your consumer desires. For example, don’t surf shopping (1)_______. You also have to convince the other people around you to start acting differently too. One response by a growing number of Americans has been to reject the (2)_______ of work and spend. Adjusting their consumption, working less, even embracing principles of being (3)_______ with simplicity. For the (4)_______ of fewer working hours, they often have to leave their jobs, and that’s a cost not many of us can pay. We need to (5)_______ up those corporate policies to give people the right to work less, to give people better vacations. We need to (6)_______ a progressive consumption tax, which puts higher burdens on the people who buy expensive products. Today our identities are so deeply wrapped up in the (7)_______ products that we own and use. To get out of work and spend we need to look carefully at the messages that are coming from Madison Avenue. Much of what they’re telling us is that exclusivity (排他性) is the cool value we want to (8)_______ for, but isn’t a better value system than one which highlights our commonality, which is more about connecting with other people, rather than (9)_______ up with them and having more than they do. We can make those connections ourselves. This should be the (10)_______ of our life philosophy.
