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Have your mommy talk to your pediatrician about your last two messages.
Ignore. Goodbye.
What a predictably lame response - which like the rest never did address the actual topic or make any sense. Yes please pick up your ball and stomp and pout all the way home, do us all a favor. To the rest of you, my apologies for sidetracking to this gibberish.
Not everyone values material goods. There's more to life.
However, I work a full time job, and still find I don't have a lot of excess money once I've paid for rent and basic utilities and food.
I work a full time job, I make decent money, and I don't value material goods. My concern (for me) is to always make sure I have money in the savings. So, I don't really waste a lot of money. I do tend to buy what I need. Every now and then something I may want.. but I try to save as much as I can.
However, whenever I choose to cut something out of my budget or choose NOT to spend money on something, that doesn't make me feel superior than others.
"Hipster" is annoying because it's an "indie" thing, but it's becoming more "mainstream" which is totally NOT what "indie" is.
But I guess it's impossible to be "creative" or an "artist" without going for that image. You can't be a talented visual artist and listen to Lady Gaga and wear Abercrombie & Fitch clothes!
Abercromie & Fitch is out of my budget. Goodwill or Wal-Mart. I don't feel superior to others, because I don't care to compare myself to others, or associate with them.
Or brag about how little they have?
I just don't understand at all. It's not even like they really are poor people whom try to make the best of what they have..they intentionally don't work (or work many hours) so they can brag and say "I don't have cable TV ".
Sorry. I'm annoyed.
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We should make an experiment and offer each hipster a million bucks. We'll see just how may of them will remain hipsters and resfuse to take the money.
Is that worse than an assumed sense of superiority because of self-imposed Opulence? People who gloat about how much they DO have?
I don't think so. Both seem to come from self-identification based on possessions or the lack of them. It probably is more socially acceptable to despise the latter.
because most of these hipsters dont understand real poverty, having lived in middle or upper class leisure. they think by romanticizing poverty and pretending to be poor (all the while getting an expensive education and working a posh job and eating out all the time), they will somehow appear less bourgeoisie.
i'd much prefer the rich who are shameless about their wealth. at least they dont pretend.
Or brag about how little they have?
I just don't understand at all. It's not even like they really are poor people whom try to make the best of what they have..they intentionally don't work (or work many hours) so they can brag and say "I don't have cable TV ".
Sorry. I'm annoyed.
Lol funny thread! Personally, I think it's just plain ignorance to sensationalize and glorify having a poverty-stricken life style. That's making other not-so-smart individuals consider partaking in the same type of lifestyle thinking it would be "fun" and an "adventure". I don't know why won't more teens or hipsters work on securing a future and getting a professional working job. It would drive others to do the same.
I don't know why won't more teens or hipsters work on securing a future and getting a professional working job.:
Working on securing a future and getting a professional working job takes thousands of days of your life, which you have only a finite number of. What's wrong with keeping those days for yourself, and learning to flourish and fulfill your needs within a minimalist lifestyle, and then own more days and years of your own life, instead of leasing it to somebody else?
I don't owe my life to you, to fulfill some need you have to keep everybody on your horizon spinning the hamster wheel. I owe my life to myself.
Why do you think it is so reprehensible for a person to drive a '97 Camry instead of a '10 Escalade, and just not bother earning the extra $50,000, and using the days of his own life so do something personally redeeming to himself?
Some people actually HAVE a life, and going to work every day is not it.
I think that this is ”old money etiquette”, now getting trendy. Rich people do not talk about money nor try to convince other about their status with showy life-style.
They do not buy McMansions, fake Luis XVI furniture, wear flashy jewelry, own expensive clothes, watches, and other status artifacts.
Most wealthy people are thrifty. They stay rich because they live like they aren't. Just because they have money doesn't mean they have to spend it.
In contrary many people who display a high-consumption lifestyle have little or no money or assets.
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