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Honestly, it's a way bigger problem that kids are being indoctrinated into "keeping up with the Joneses" as such a young age.
We've officially made children part of the Conspicuous Consumption game and motherfucker, they don't have money, it's their parents money!
It's sickening and will fuck their finances their whole lives if having the best iPhone is more important than being able to put food on your plate.
I'm way the fuck more worried about these kids indoctrinated into a Capitalist hell-hole more than I am about fucking Android.
If our democratic future is banking on these kids saving us, and they're already rooted firmly up a corporations asshole, we're fucked.
Nothing is new here.
This isn’t that different from when I was a kid twenty years ago. Only instead of phones (though we all had phones back then too, even if they weren’t smart), it was game consoles, or Pokémon cards, or beanie babies or whatever.
Only difference is about $1000 give or take a few bucks.
Yeah you’re not wrong about that. Although some people went hard into the beanie babies. And the Pokémon cards actually.
If you were into warhammer you resigned yourself at a young age to never having money. Those things eat up an ungodly amount of money.
That’s fair, I’m actually thinking of magic the gathering at the moment. Luckily my friend was given a huge chest of cards like hundreds and hundreds of cards, so we never had to buy any.
Check out MTG:Arena. Great online adaptation if you haven't seen it yet.
Oh man I didn’t even think about magic. Yeah that’s definitely a big on. I was lucky enough not to fall into that hobby.
Accounting for inflation? Maybe not much of a difference when talking about game consoles…
Yeah I don’t know where this guy has been for the last 70 years but consumerism came for kids a long time ago.
He’ll, kids shows have been essentially advertising platforms for decades. Shows and movies exist to sell toys and make profits.
Is this why me and my equally autistic partner are so decent with our money against statistical odds?
I mean i knew purchases for status where a thing but surely thats just the odd snobbish people right?
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So, they’re mindless image driven consumers who are going to bankrupt themselves and their parents to the point of starvation AND bring about the end of democracy because… of which phone they use?