... terms of big houses, big cars, big money, you are often considered as a ‘failure’, and often consider yourself as such. The whole system thrives on consumption and the constant expansion of ... approval and confirmation of your ’success’ from others, in order to compensate for a lack of self-esteem that is the cause of this obsession to begin with. A sense of security, self-esteem and ... symbol of status, of ’success’. I know a number of people (even some well-known ones) who are so obsessed with their cars, they even give names to their car. A friend of mine had a car and...