Listened to some of this tonite and thought of this thread.
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/07/17/wealth-poverty/generation-wealth-more-than-money
Lauren Greenfield: I really started thinking about it during the financial crisis, and I started to think that the stories that I had done about all of these different topics maybe told a larger story about the way we had changed and how we had gone from a culture — how the American dream had changed and how we've gone from a dream characterized by hard work and frugality and discipline and discretion to a kind of balloon dream more about celebrity and bling and narcissism. And so I went back to kind of figure out what had happened and in the process, realized that my story wasn't just about wealth or about money, but also about the other things that give us value — the currency of beauty, of sexuality, of fame, of branding.