Madness Of Materialism Steve Taylor Analysis

The Madness of Materialism by Steve Taylor talks about how we are so driven to accumulate possessions and wealth. He also talks about the history of James Marshall in the early 1848. James Marshall is a guys who found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold in Sacramento. As soon as he found the gold, people started going to the area, struck by ‘gold fever’. In a little over a year, San Francisco grew from shanty town of 79 building to a city of tens of thousands. But then, The Indian groups was trying to protect their lands, but were massacred by the miners. Those who weren’t killed by the miners slowly starved to death. The result of this, The Californian population fell from around 150,000 to 30,000 in 1870. Basically