For one year, Greta Taubert renounced our consumer society. Eating, drinking and dressing without spending a cent, the 30-year-old German woman wanted to see what life would be like if the economic system collapsed. The first thing she badly wanted after her 12 months of consumer abstinence? Tights, she replied spontaneously, nursing a cappuccino in a café in Leipzig, a city in what used to be East Germany.