Most Americans should not use credit cards
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George Ritzer (1995), author of “The Mcdonaldization Of Society,” described some of these issues, writing about the globalization of consumer credit card culture and its values, which leads to “…consumerism and indebtedness, fraud, invasion of privacy, rationalization and dehumanization, and homogenization stemming from increasing Americanization.... Critically, it can be argued that such a transition impoverishes America and the world when it is exported, in that these values are false, manipulated, and designed to fuel corporate profits for a minority of society rather than promote what is good and progressive for the greater whole of the global community....