Extreme Home Makeover

Have you watched extreme home makeover? I like the show. They go help families in dire needs of home improvement and within a week build them a new lavish extravagant home. The idea of helping people who deserves this is great. The problem is in the execution.

The amount of money they spend is ridiculous. The houses they built show what is wrong with America and the west.
They build this huge homes and crazy rooms which promote consumerism. These people just need simple safe home. If they did this it may not be good television but it would be good living, good for the globe. They could probably help more families this way.

The idea is great but only in the western world can a good idea become perverse. Thus I have stopped watching the show.

Take the money you spend in one home and you can help a whole slum in another, like a friend of mine does. I am told it costs 2000 dollars to sponsor a slum. And the people in the slum don't want their rooms to look like cars, or have 4000sq ft. homes.
Just a roof, and a floor.
How about we send these people to a slum for an extreme makeover. They will probably get the slum a pool, and who knows some kid might get a room that looks like a garbage can.

I wish they would read about LESS and use the LESS philosophy.