Everyone is spending money on those things, but it's not as though the vast majority of people in the West can't buy televisions.  The vast majority of Americans own televisions, cars, computers with internet access, etc.  If I remember correctly, roughly the same percentage of the bottom 20% of income earners in America own their homes as do citizens of Germany as a whole.  So let's not pretend as though most people are incapable of affording this sort of thing in America and western Europe.  And Starvid's point is that this potentially lends a hand by allowing workers to take part in the gains to investment that we've seen.  It would be a tad ridiculous to hate on The Evil Capitalists^TM because of their ownership while shooting down the idea of encouraging The Glorious Workers^TM to become owners, as well, would it not?

Hell, the only thing that might save the moronic Revolutionaries-turn-Reaganistas of the Baby-Boom generation is the fact that so many actually have taken on investments during their march to destroy the safety net with tax cuts and federal spending sprees. </rant>

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!