Talking with the author of Affluenza?

Question

In our English class, we just finished reading it, and for our Final, we'll be talking with the Author, John De Graaf. Our teacher asked us to come up with some questions we'd like to ask him, and I've only been able to come up with a couple. Is there a question you'd like to have answered by him?

Answer 1

Here is an excerpt from the article, "Spent" by John Monczunski in the Notre Dame Magazine. Maybe if you read the entire article, it will give you some additional ideas!

The result, some argue, is a bad case of "affluenza," defined in the book and PBS documentary of the same name by John de Graaf as "an epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by a dogged pursuit of the American Dream." One telling symptom of people living above their means is that the average credit card balance for a U.S. household is $7,500, up from less than $3,000 in 1990. On average, Americans pay more than $1,000 per year in interest and fees. Meanwhile, last year 1.3 million Americans declared bankruptcy.