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Originally posted by dreams n chains
How are they buying these items? Credit cards....... no one is paying cash for those things.
I have also been wondering who these people are that can afford such unnecessary items on this day and age. It made me think that maybe these people are living like there is no tomorrow, are fed-up and decide "what the hell, may as well be happy." $pending as if the bills will never arrive.
Let's be careful out there.
Originally posted by darrman
working people have their mindset programmed ,, it seems to me
most who work, only WORK for what they want,,, their needs are secondary,,
Why is it so important to get that big screen? Maybe to be able to focus on something other than reality in a high def environment?
Originally posted by MrWendal
Three words.
50 percent off.
I do not think it is so much a case of "keeping up with the Jones's" anymore. In our society today, the success of an individual very literally defined by what that person owns.
No car? Loser
Don't own your own home? Loser
It no longer matters if you have a job anymore... it is about how much it pays. If you do not have a good paying job, your a loser. This is the world we have made for ourselves. What do you think if you walk into someone's home and see that they do not have a digital recorder, but instead they have a VCR? Well obviously you cant afford TIVO and therefor your not only a loser, your an outdated loser.
Originally posted by jude11
Originally posted by lifeform11
reply to post by jude11
your right, i know people who think they are their cars and we all know somebody who thinks they are their mobile phone surely? they actually try to impress people with their latests gadets they have for it. as a result a persons standing in society is based on what they have consumed. it's nothing new it has just got worse, no kid wanted to be the kid in school who had cheap shoes when i was a kid.
yes sadly this is what people have become. not all people. just alot.
I was the kid with the cheap shoes and bell bottoms when they went out of style. Did I care? No. I liked Bell bottoms.
So where is all the money coming from that people can line up for hours, pitch tents and camp out for big screen TV's? Assault each other, risk injury, arrest...
That's it. The more broke you are the more you look for any easy way of escaping reality even for brief moments. TV is a good choice cause the only thing you have to do is to turn it on and shut your mind down. You can have 45mins of your talk shows, soap operas or whatever nonsense they have very easily.