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There's one thing that all people with houses filled with clutter have in common: they all have enough material wealth to buy that clutter. The headline of this article might as well be "Some Fraction of People Who Can Afford to Buy Too Much Stuff Actually Do So". It seems rather foolish to say that material wealth is the cause of clutter: 'tis far more accurate to treat wealth as a enabler of hoarding tendencies.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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