In his Ted Talk, Peter Singer compares our modern society with Sisyphus, a character in Greek mythology. Sisyphus had as a punishment to roll a boulder up a hill repeatedly, he would have to start up again when the boulder would roll back down the hill. He compares the fact that Sisyphus had to start all over again each time he reached the top of the hill with our consumer lifestyle. He defines our consumer lifestyles as follows: we spend our money we worked hard for to get on goods we want and desire, and when all the money is gone, we go back to working in order to consume goods again. He…