nothing. most things are easy if you put in the right kind of effort and attention.

but people simple refuse to do it, this making their lives way more difficult than it seems. or they straight up reject instruction and assistance when it’s offered.

The majority of consumers for those products a middle aged dads. They simple have a lot of money to burn and it makes them feel good about themselves to blow $15,000 on a mountain bike they ride green trails on or $2000 on a drill they use to hang pictures. It’s pure vanity. But those folks are also living in 5000sq ft homes and driving 80K cars.

Working professionals aren’t consumers. They are producers. There are very few of them, compared to the 100,000s of vanity consumers who are buying luxury goods of which they will only ever use like 10% of the product.

I won’t. People in my area are only getting richer and richer and more bitter about how they aren’t even more rich than they already are. I live in one of the most expensive zip codes in the USA.

the purpose of high end products is to broadcast you have money and therefore you are better than other people who don’t.

the point of luxury cars and such is so show that you can piss away $500 on a oil change, and are therefore ‘better’ than the peons who drive cars where the oil change is $50.

because its layout is timeless.

This is it.

Every miserable person I know endlessly complaints how they don’t have control over things. Even when they do. They just convince themselves that have no other choices and their misery becomes their identity.

Yes, the hardest part of my life was 14-20 or so. only halfway through college did things start to improve.

And the biggest component was the people around me being awful. Currently I’ve having another dip in my life… and it’s all due to the people around me again. I feel like I’m going backwards to high school in terms of people surrounded by provincial small-minded and nasty people. I miss being around open-minded folks.

I am not. My life is progressively happier since my early 20s and really starting getting better at 35+ when I started focusing on myself and excluding more friends/partners who were dragging me down.

But everyone around me is getting more miserable, old or young. And I hate it and I hate them for it.

Increasingly I just detest socialization, because all it is is me listening to other people complain, and them telling I’m a jerk for being happy when the aren’t. All weekend I had to listen to people whine about their bodies, whine about their kids/spouses, and then brag about how rich they are and then lecture me how ignorant and stupid I am for not being as rich as they are.

Food culture sucks. Gourmets, foodies, Michelin star chasers etc, all suck.

All my favorite places were low-key mom and pop indie operations where the focus was on the food. Not the decor, the presentation, or the pretentiousness.

I also will never understand the total obsession people have with super expensive dinners. I hate them and they are a huge waste of money and the food is usually mediocre. Like expensive wine, it has nothing to do with the product’s quality or taste, and everything to do with just bragging about how rich you are by blowing boat loads of cash on an hour or two of pure vanity.

Lying will get you want you want most of the time.

7-9

if you get less than 6 hours of sleep on a regular basis you are doing damage to your body.

In my car, yes.

the false drama is the point.

probably. .ml is explicitly for Marxists. it’s right in their sidebar.

their userbase tends to be pro-violence, pro-authoritarian, and anti-american, among other things.

No, it’s that you’re a thug who thinks they are a hero.

And like all thugs, you hide behind theoretical bullshit to justify your horrible actions and beliefs as for the ‘greater good’.

And if you found yourself on the receiving end of the violence you propose, I don’t think you’d be so eager about it.

Yeah, that’s why I walked away from every car dealer who was a weirdo manipulative twat, and I bought my car from the sales person who was honest and didn’t try to sell me upgrades and sold me the car for the quoted price. They exist.

I walked out of 6 different dealerships before I found an honest salesperson. And they got my business.

Just like I don’t buy shit from pawn shops or other shady businesses.

then you shouldn’t believe in violence. violence is power.

you violate your own beliefs.

Cool. I don’t. I think manipulative tactics are fucked up and illegal.

Anytime a sales person tries to manipulate me I walk away. Usually they become abusive… probably because manipulating people is a form of abusive coercion.

But hey, I also don’t associate with anyone in marketing or sales… for this very reason. They tend to think manipulation is the entire point of human relationships.

they are scams.

they prey on ignorant and desperate folks.

just like any scamming thing.

Yeah, I do notice a lot of people with shitty attitudes and toxic personalities call me judgemental.

And I also notice people who don’t have those personalities, like me.

I wonder why that is? I can’t think of any reason… many it’s like when the tankies on lemmy tell me i’m an ignorant and brainwashed by capitalism if i don’t think China is a utopian state?