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Originally Posted by boostm3
Only if youre real insecure, and buy into groupthink. Its a total illusion. Do you think its high status to be driving a car you cant afford and are about to be repossessed? Is it chic to be upside down on every material possession you put out there for the world to see? Do you think every Toyota driver is 2 steps from the poor house? You cant tell diddly about the status of somebody by the baubles they put out there to represent.
Cant buy into these images; its all marketing and slight of hand.
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Some people care about image and what that projects to society. You don’t have to be insecure to care about your image, though you’re right that some do compensate that way. Marketing, sure. But it’s also how we unconsciously judge people and you can’t pretend that doesn’t exist.
