International Travel and the Hedonic Treadmill
5th December 2013
Today, the bobo class views international travel as an essential activity in order to achieve self-actualization. Thus I pick international travel as an example of the hedonic treadmill, in which something unavailable in the past suddenly becomes essential when it becomes more widely available. But not too widely available because it has to be expensive enough to keep the riff-raff away. There’s no self-actualization to doing something that every blue collar worker can do.