If you have no answer to that question, you might want to glance at one of several recent books that teach spoiled, materialistic parents how to instill values in their spoiled, materialistic children.
As early as 1776, Adam Smith recognized that businessmen may be more interested in their own materialistic self-interest, while ignoring, overriding or harming the public interest.
In order to satisfy their materialistic demands, they would also pursue spiritual satisfaction, which would make them more fastidious than the lower class when buying cultural products.
The author's first novel, originally published in Italy in 1929, tells of a middle-class Roman family in which the two adult children are morally adrift in their elders' vapid, materialistic world.
As he eloquently invokes the proud Greco-Roman heritage that is the birthright of all Italians -- "the greatest people in history" -- the camera quietly subverts his argument, presenting the modern-day heirs of Greece and Rome in all their noisy, materialistic vulgarity.
It is true that while his heroes, most notably Ferris Bueller and the members of the Breakfast Club, are in conflict with authority, they are also stubborn in their individualism and often unapologetically materialistic.
Many educators and health practitioners have traded in their sense of integrity in exchange for the pursuit of materialistic goals or simply the need of survival.
The men most likely to feel emotional and physical distress when their wives have a higher status or income tend to be those who are more invested in their identity as breadwinners than as partners and who define success in materialistic ways.
On the Stoical view that it is both necessary and sufficient, a eudaimon life is a life that has been successfully lived (where "success" of course is not to be understood in a materialistic way) and such people die knowing not only that they have made a success of their lives but that they have also brought their lives to a markedly successful completion.
In our materialistic culture, tap water is the generic brand.
