Vocabulary and definitions obsession something or someone you think about all the time possessions things/ objects you own privileged having opportunities and advantages that some other people do not have disposable income money that is left after paying for everyday things like bills well-off having enough money to live well consumers people who buy things income money someone gets for working or from investing money industrialisation changing to an economy based n economy based on industry credit crunch economic problem where banks don’t lend much money upgrading improving/ making more advanced consumer society a place where people think that buying and owning things is very important upbringing how someone is treated and educated when they are young - and how this affects their life