Harry Jones’s neighbor has a compulsion to own every modern gadget that’s bigger and better and more whiz-bang than whatever Harry’s got.
Eat your heart out Harry Jones!

Variants

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  1. “Ahead of the Joneses” by Al Sarrantonio, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 1979.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Al Sarrantonio