Turning green with compulsive envy leads to turning blue from all too patient greed
Commercial media does not urge people towards sex, violence, and drugs. Society takes care of that. Instead, commercial media urges people toward an overweening jealousy of wealth (read: more money than they can count) and all the trappings and conveniences and privileges that accompany wealth. The symptoms of status affluence. This ambition toward acquisition at any and all costs derived from popular jealousies of materialistic fetishism urges people to prostitute themselves, and harm one another, and sell poisons to each other because these are the means by which people attain the money they believe will buy them out of the rat race. Don’t blame pr0n or UFC, or movies like Party Monster or games like GTA because it’s the glamorous material excess portrayed in newsmedia that has people salivating.
Which is precisely what is meant by hate the game not the player
Although, not surprisingly few people get even mildly rich in their attempts to exploit fleeting envy-borne ambitions for the big chips as there’s a huge difference between rich and wealthy. We can thank Chris Rock for reminding us that “yeah Shaquille O’neal is rich, but the guy who signs his checks is wealthy” it’s so easily disposed of in the forgeterry bank.
A person under the $30k bracket buys a used car and rents by the month
A person under the $60k bracket leases a $30k dollar car and finances a $300k home
A person under the $90k bracket buys a $60k dollar car and purchases a $600k home
Where exactly is there a difference outside of prolific symbolism?
Without exception, we live from paycheck to paycheck or balance increase to balance increase.
Literally, there is no accounting for taste.