Shopping?!

We by now buy extreme amounts of anything and everything. However how is that connected to some of the current world issues? For example Pirating is a reaction to this we are told to have the music, movies and games as well as books. However we are also limited financially, so if want everything does consumerism not encourage hacking and pirating because we simply 'WANT' if not even 'NEED' all these many things. Adds are everywhere and we are also taught as children that we 'WANT' or 'NEED' these things. Why not spend a christmas without spending obsene amounts of money. Simply spending time together as family? No instead its one of the shopping frenzy times. We associate products and objects with love and feelings which are not really existend.
Owning is something that we think we need today and to have movies and the stream off entertainment. You want to fit in and thus you watch the movies and shows also buy the 'IN' things.
Many people today are actually clinically addicted to buying things. Even though North America is one of the few areas without officially denying this clinical addiction. Objects and entertainment are dominating our daily lifes more and more overriding actual interpersonal relations and interaction.