These highly regarded sociologists say things much more nicely than me--more diplomatically, with more scholarship...(and importantly with more supporting evidence than).but, methinks that sometimes they say nothing I haven't said or hinted at in a variety of posts...... . . . . . .e.g., when they say:
"... the American economy is far too oriented to a narrow conception of standards of living that is preoccupied with income, wealth and material consumption rather than the overall quality of life. True prosperity gives weight to leisure and free time rather than simply income. It places high value on public goods and collective consumption rather than simply private consumption. And it is concerned with long-term environmental sustainability rather than simply present conditions." (p. 8)
So my ability to have a social life (including liberal consumption of alcoholic beverages)--a "social life" being a non-competitive relationship with others, not a relationship essentially involving buying and selling/market exchanges, but a kind of coming together for the purpose of enjoying one another's company...and that is hampered by the lack of a certain public good called public transport--which goes hand in hand with the over-emphasis upon individuals buying their own personal climate-destroying machines.......and then there's also something called puritanism. (what me enjoy alcohol? NO, no, that would be childish. Ha Ha Ha. Only teenagers and immature young people like to drink.... I prefer to work all my life and spend my spare time in church.)
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