re: Cost of living an inflation is bad, so why do people keep doing useless things

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Have you been in a coma the last roughly 40 years? That’s been going on a long time, Baw.

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I love when posters talk about how young people these days are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses. Keeping up with the Joneses as a social/economic phenomenon has been a thing for many many decades. They’ve almost certainly never lived in a time where that wasn’t a thing.