WERE (ARE) TANGIBLE FACTORS RECOGNIZED?

THEY CAN BE SO ROOTED AS TO BE INVISIBLE.

Take a modern practice, buying what one does not need:

       Department store window / Richard Nahem

"If I wore my favorite black dress on Tuesday in Cincinatti, I'd  see pictures on social media on Wednesday, and I couldn’t repeat the look in San Diego on Thursday, or people would think I had only one dress."

-- Woman preparing a book tour, New York Times

For women especially, changing outfits every day is a kind of tax. They may do so out of habit, because they like shopping or because if they don't do it, they'll seem to lack the means. 

Few say, "such purchases give an impression of liberty but in fact are imposed, because the economy depends on them."

The next chapters show how

social organization and beliefs

stem from an economic base 

that is usually unsung.

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Next,

 Awareness of the economic base

would avoid tragedies like this