As demonstrated in Henry David Thoreau's passage from Economy, Wendell Berry's passage from Waste, and John Kenneth Galbraith's passage from The Dependence Effect, the overly advanced American society introduces ideas such as materialism and the "love of purchasing" in society. the inside of every American's mind. Even the American Dream, a foundational concept for our nation, now unites all people of all cultures under materialism and greed. The highly capitalist American society distorts values ​​such as “the pursuit of freedom” into the pursuit of money, and borders no longer exist. The increase in American production produces the increase in consumer desires and, as Galbraith states, “one man's consumption becomes his neighbor's desire (479)”. With this calculation, the more desires are satisfied, the more new ones arise. Berry, on the other hand, more openly attacks the American capitalist economy and the waste it has produced when he says: “The truth is that we Americans, all of us, have become a kind of human garbage, living our lives in the midst of ubiquity". damned mess of which we are both victims and executioners (485).” American corporate capitalism and consumerist culture undermines our well-being as we deplete the Earth's limited resources, produce excessive waste, and overindulge in unnecessary luxuries that ultimately result in our unhappiness and financial ruin, trapping us in an endless cycle of dependence. the advancement of the American market and excessive, yet deceptive, advertising lead to the nation's consumerist culture that challenges our well-being spiritually and economically. As stated in his essay, Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the corrosiveness of materialism and the ongoing toil of humanity and the spirit of the individual… middle of paper… floods of creation. , “desires are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied,” as demonstrated in Galbraith's text from The Dependence Effect. On the other hand, manufacturers always actively advertise to generate desires and, therefore, these desires depend on the production. This also means that the consumer does not spontaneously create his own desires, but it is the productive entity itself that creates them and then satisfies them. However, the products created don't really satisfy anything because the companies that created the products instigated this desire from the beginning and the consumer, alone, never possessed the urgency of the desire that they now satisfy by purchasing the product. Thus, from the highly materialistic American society emerges the “addiction effect” that traps most Americans in a limitless cycle.