This book Your Money or Your Life, by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez(1999), has an interesting take on how the"having can be unfulfilling, becoming more of a trap than a reward. Since the Industrial Revolution, most of us have learned to think that having material possessions is a good thing. We have been taught to always push for a higher standard of living as a path to happiness. Yet, what we find at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not only an economic crisis but a moral one as well, which has its roots in our own unbridled greed, among other things.