Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out

I would love an apartment in a nice part of town with a decent view, a guest bedroom and maybe a den/home office. Does this make me materialistic? Because compared to housing, everything else is really inexpensive.

I agree with much that the article says. However, it seems awfully subjective ... more like one person's rant on their own private blog than a news article.

Btw., am I the only one to think it rather knavish that the word “materialism” which originally signified a school of thought emphasizing the physicality of the world and all things in it (think Democritus, Indian Lokayatics, de la Mettrie, Feuerbach) came to be used in the sense of “pursuit of property”?