PS the painting is 'Signing the register' by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Leighton …
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Is your theory that this is conscious or just selected behavior?
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Good question, and I don't know the answer. Every advertiser knows the best way to sell stuff is to instill feelings of sexual frustration and inadequacy, and presumably they know that happily married people don't feel as frustrated or inadequate....
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It’s both. Advertisers learned through trial and error that tapping into women’s hypergamy and unmoored materialism worked best for selling consumerism, to the point that now women account for 80% of all purchases and now the process is intentional.
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....and I hate it. Grocery shopping is the worst would eat rather go back to growing my own food, canning and living simple.
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That’s probably a good idea regardless. Just big curiosity what’s your (rough) age bracket and marital/parental status? It’s not been my experience that women are leading the charge against consumerism.
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There are lots of us out here. 40’s 3 kids graduated,1 10 year old living with the love of my life. Rural living with chickens in my yard and my career is a tax consultant!
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Sounds nice. I asked not to attack just curiosity. I suppose there’s a pool of women that aren’t damaged from anti family/consumerist programming but as a mid 20s man it seems incredibly hard to find
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I honestly can’t believe what has happened in a short period of time. Hopefully your gen will be able to pull it back on the road.
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Once you have a marriage, you have the start of a team. The start of an empire. You build things together and amass wealth and resources for your offspring. Breaking that up ensures that people remain wage slaves.
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There's a reason every commercial with a married couple has the husband as an utter buffoon. Well, there's several reasons, but this is one of them.
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Bitcoin does this, too.
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I probably agree with you, but: Explain?
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Inflationary fiat money incentivizes spending, and thus runaway consumerism, by punishing saving. Deflationary money incentivizes reasonable growth by rewarding saving, thus making the owner of stored value think more critically about parting with it.
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The most impactful 5 words in advertising: "lasting more than four hours"
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Strange point for a polyamorist to make. My experience of polys is that they justify it in terms of sexual consumerism, and are very unlikely to have a long-term pronatalist pair bond
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