Sentence examples for material goods to from inspiring English sources
Because there aren't many material goods to be stocked or products to be developed, they can operate with just a few employees.
The foreigner said political isolation had been effective in shutting off North Koreans to most international commerce, from material goods to cultural influences to political ideas.
"There's a tremendous competition for tying material goods to social status," Ms. Wiseman said, fresh from visits that she and members of the Empower Program, the nonprofit organization she helped found, made to schools in Monmouth, Bergen and Essex counties.
May he not prefer material goods to hospitals, lavish Hollywood epics to documentaries, TV commercials to Shakespeare?" Wolfenden warned that the vast majority of voters would want to invent capitalism if it did not already exist.
They say that while being in the program -- formally known as scatter-site housing -- is profitable for them, they also shoulder extensive financial burdens in providing services and material goods to the homeless families.
Second, I came across another study, by another pair of psychologists, Leaf van Boven and Tom Gilovich, that proves experiences are more likely than material goods to lead to happiness.
Some workers accepted the incentive of a cash wage to buy material goods or to accumulate the necessary social payments for marriage.
To achieve the sustainable, "collaborative commons" world that Rifkin so eloquently describes and advocates, we have to move the marginal cost of energy and material goods closer to zero.
In the last decade, a number of studies using experimental designs have stated that spending money on experiences rather than on material goods tends to make people happier.
The absolute income hypothesis ignores the fact that as society becomes wealthier, the material goods needed to fully participate in society can change.
This nut will harder to crack -- that is, it will be harder to move to abundance of material goods and thus to near zero marginal cost.
