>>20678410Indeed.
I took economics in school but I love reading history books in my free time. I especially about credit and money or economic history and the one thing I've noticed throughout the ages is that vanity is the real currency of human beings. It's not a modern problem at all.
In fact the most common themes of people going into debt is marriages and funerals (other than destruction or natural causes like a bad year for the crops).
People haven't changed whatsoever when it comes to ego.