Henry David Thoreau believed that in order to live well, we must reduce the number of material goods we have. Otherwise, these things begin to dominate us. Take a position on this and explain.I do agree with this idea. One of the most common reasons for dissonance between people is greed. One person might be jealous of what another has and therefore they become angry with the other. The friendship that those two people would have had would be destroyed by one's want for what the other has. This shows us that jealousy can dominate someone's life, and usually it's for something material.
Especially in this era, we are dominated by a need for material things. Each of us is caught up in who has the best phone, or the best computer, or the most electronics. All of these things sometimes take more precedence than spending time with people, and it can often be seen that two people, when out together, will be texting others who aren't there. The material things in our lives have taken over us and it seems, at times, that they control us.
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