As demonstrated by the passage of Henry David Thoreau in Economy, that of Wendell Berry in Waste and the passage of John Kenneth Galbraith in The Dependence Effect, the overly advanced American society introduces ideas like materialism and the “love of shopping” inside the mind of every American. Even the American Dream, a foundational notion of our nation, now unites all people of all cultures under materialism and greed. Highly capitalist American society transforms values ​​such as the “quest for freedom” into a pursuit of money and borders no longer exist. America's increased production meets increased consumer needs, and as Galbraith says, "one man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish (479)." With this calculation, the more desires are satisfied, the more new ones are born. Berry, for his part, more rightly attacks the American capitalist economy and the waste it has produced when he declares: "The truth is that we Americans, all of us, have become a kind of human waste, living our lives in the midst of omnipresences. damn disorder of which we are both the victims and the authors (485). America's corporate capitalism and consumerist culture undermine our well-being as we deplete the Earth's limited resources, produce excessive waste, and overindulge in unnecessary luxuries that ultimately result in to our unhappiness and financial downfall, while locking us in a never-ending cycle of dependency. The changing American market and excessive, but misleading, advertising are leading to a national consumer culture that calls into question our spiritual and economic well-being. As noted in his essay, Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the corrosive nature of materialism and the continuing toll exerted on humanity and the spirit of the individual... middle of paper ... streams of creation. » Thus, as American society advances, "desires are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied", as Galbraith's text from The Dependence Effect demonstrates. On the other hand, producers always actively advertise to generate needs and these needs therefore depend on production. This also means that the consumer does not spontaneously create his own desires, but that the same production entity creates and then satisfies them. However, the products created do not really satisfy anything because the companies that created the products created this need from the start and the consumer, on their own, never possessed the urgency of desire that they now satisfy by purchasing the product. Thus, from the highly materialistic American society emerges the “dependency effect” which locks most Americans in a limitless cycle..