Avarice vs. Shopaholism
Harpagon, that’s my idol. He would be a good medicine against shopaholism. Not a single penny spent by anybody without thinking twice.
Vice versus vice – maybe it could work this way: A niggard could be re-educated by a shopaholic and vice versa. But what makes people be avaricious? One of the reasons may be the person’s background. E.g. one who was brought up by a poor family can be badly affected by experiencing lack of food, money, etc. And in future it results in over-exceeded saving of anything, especially of money. And it also makes the person greedy and unable to share his/her property. On the other hand, a shopaholic does not know what it is to save money, so in my opinion it would be more than interesting to place these two (in this case imaginative) people together and observe their reactions. Who would win?
More info: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148b.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oniomania
Harpagon, that’s my idol. He would be a good medicine against shopaholism. Not a single penny spent by anybody without thinking twice.
Vice versus vice – maybe it could work this way: A niggard could be re-educated by a shopaholic and vice versa. But what makes people be avaricious? One of the reasons may be the person’s background. E.g. one who was brought up by a poor family can be badly affected by experiencing lack of food, money, etc. And in future it results in over-exceeded saving of anything, especially of money. And it also makes the person greedy and unable to share his/her property. On the other hand, a shopaholic does not know what it is to save money, so in my opinion it would be more than interesting to place these two (in this case imaginative) people together and observe their reactions. Who would win?
More info: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02148b.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oniomania
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