After taking the first quiz, my final score was a 23! The website said that if your score was from 23-30 you should "cut up your credit cards and call a doctor!" I guess I've got a pretty severe case!
After taking the second quiz my diagnosis was:
Positive for:
rash of debt
chronic stress
resource exhaustion / social scars
Upon completing these quizzes and receiving my results, I must say that I am not too surprised with the outcome. After watching the movie on Affluenza and participating in the discussion about the topic in class, I feel that I would definitely test positive for a case of Affluenza. I feel that while I have more extras in my life than that of people in previous generations, I do not believe that my generation is as happy and content with their quality of life.
After reading the suggestions made by the website on how to cure a case of Affluenza, I must say that most of the suggestions are a little too extreme for the average person to realistically achieve. While some suggestions, like the one that asks you to try to cut your usages in half, seem reasonable, other such as not having children and moving to an area with a lower cost of living are a bit extreme. I think that in order to get our society to make changes, we must come up with smaller things that people can do on a daily basis. I think that such suggestions, while they may seem small, will add up to be something much bigger. I do not think we will ever be able to change the habits of today's society, but I do think that we can make small changes that will result in major positive outcomes. In my own life I think that I could in fact make some of the changes suggested by the website. Things such as consuming half the shampoo I consume and using half the laundry detergent are all things I could work to reduce on a daily basis.
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