/fa/ - Fashion

>>9474123
>>9474173

seriously what's the point of trying to appear wealthy?

There is literally no advantage to being perceived as rich.

>Your friends will expect you to pay for things more often (because you're rich and it's not a big deal for you)

>Your relationships will suck (she will expect you to pay for everything, as well as get her grandiose gifts because you're rich and it's not a big deal for you)

>People you first meet will hate you right off the bat simply because of jealousy. Then it's an uphill battle to prove to them you aren't a rich asshole.

and the worst one:

>All of your accomplishments won't mean anything to others, because they will assume your parents bought your way in or pulled strings to get you to where you are. Basically any hard work you do means nothing.

>>9190464

I think cyberpunk has had its razors dulled because all the aspects of cyberpunk as a cultural movement that were transgressive are no longer counter-cultural, but have spilled over into mainstream culture. What's happening in the tech world now is weirder and more interesting than what cyberpunk writers have imagined. The hallmarks of cyberpunk life/style are now for the most part acceptable behavior. Things that were transgressive are now passé.

>Early-Adopterism
>Encrustation of technology on the body
>Veneration of technology above Gods
>Addiction to immersive game worlds
>Entire economies transacted in cryptocurrency
>Governments writing viruses for espionage
>Warfare being the provenance of robots and drones
>Holographic pop stars

Even if one buys into the philosophy of early cyberpunks – ill-advised as that may be, given the nature of the changing climate of international politics and its relationship to the Internet – there's really no reason to dress like them. You don't need to be crenellated with outmoded technology anymore because your phone serves 95% of those functions. You might as well wear Yohji. You might as well be in a suit working at the NSA or in desert BDU in Afghanistan. The style was always for those who wanted to mark themselves as such.