I know some libs like this in the bay area. The husband has a huge spending problem and the wife picked up on it also.
The husband is upper management at a tech company and is constantly trying to keep up with the owner who has hundereds of millions.
New motorcycle every other year. New mtn bike every year. Constantly getting new gear.
We stayed at their place once and i went through the closet and it was just filled with hiking mtn biking and motorcycle gear that was used once. Some of it never used. And that gear is all expensive and he was getting the top of the line shit.
The people that say this are just playing keeping up with the Joneses that's all
Oh definitely, but "keeping up with the Joneses" is the social equivalent of the compulsion for capital accumulation. Unless you're very consciously trying to work against it, you're going to be swept up by its currents.
I know some libs like this in the bay area. The husband has a huge spending problem and the wife picked up on it also.
The husband is upper management at a tech company and is constantly trying to keep up with the owner who has hundereds of millions. New motorcycle every other year. New mtn bike every year. Constantly getting new gear.
We stayed at their place once and i went through the closet and it was just filled with hiking mtn biking and motorcycle gear that was used once. Some of it never used. And that gear is all expensive and he was getting the top of the line shit.
The people that say this are just playing keeping up with the Joneses that's all
Oh definitely, but "keeping up with the Joneses" is the social equivalent of the compulsion for capital accumulation. Unless you're very consciously trying to work against it, you're going to be swept up by its currents.