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Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

Early criticism of consumerism was in the works of Thorstein Veblen in 1899, which examined the middle class emerging at the turn of the 20th century,

Simple living or voluntary simplicity encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle.

These may include reducing one's possessions, generally referred to as minimalism, or increasing self-sufficiency, for example.

Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they have rather than want.

Although asceticism generally promotes living simply and refraining from luxury and indulgence, not all proponents of simple living are ascetics.

Simple living is distinct from those living in forced poverty, as it is a voluntary lifestyle choice.

A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.

The term "progressive" refers to the way the tax rate progresses from low to high, with the result that a taxpayer's average tax rate is less than the person's marginal tax rate.

The term can be applied to individual taxes or to a tax system as a whole; a year, multi-year, or lifetime.

Progressive taxes are imposed in an attempt to reduce the tax incidence of people with a lower , as such taxes shift the incidence increasingly to those with a higher ability-to-pay.

The opposite of a progressive tax is a regressive tax, where the relative tax rate or burden decreases as an individual's ability to pay increases.