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>>15757471
feel the same.

>>14479521
>That's the whole point of the propaganda, to give you a feeling of inadequacy and that you need "more" to be someone.
Sometimes we do need more, some rapper spending $500,000 on jewelry I can recognise as propoganda and just outrageous branding, I can dismiss that, real life not as much.
An old friend of my fathers is a millionaire, worth about 10m, he recently sponsored an amateur basketball team his son coaches to the tune of $200,000 for the year, they dont even play in a league. Sure theres probably tax fuckery and helping his son out going on if I look at it rationally, its just a bit of fun to him, but I cant seem to turn my brain off to it, not when I have sub $3000 in the bank and always facing the possibility of losing my shit job or watching markets constantly moving my small stacks sideways.

I think that did the damage was being homeless at 22 and sleeping on the streets for a few months, when I was young I always just assumed that I could always do anything without consequence but now I know theres a real hell waiting people who truly fail and the barrier to get there is tiny, even just 1-2k, so seeing somebody waste 200k for fun just stings.
I'm not even homeless anymore and still have this in me, I have to get out of this mindset.