New discovery:

For common people, +possessions = -creativity
If people are coming up with more and more items with more and more purposes, and they sell them, then the R&D people working for corporations are the ones doing all the thinking. Back in the 1800s, people had to CREATE their own fun. They didn't have ipods or soccer balls. They made up their own games to pass the time. Now that we have all of these recreational items with set purposes, we don't have to create our own fun. Everything is mass-produced-- nobody creates anything anymore except for corporations bearing the purpose of making money.