"A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand."
The interesting thing is that according to Sayers the Depression and WWII gave us a warning, as it were, of the consequences of that kind of consumerism: and yet we don't seem to have learned the lesson.
Wlecome to the Shining Shores of America! 
