Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

Mike Stoklasa said:
Why would I spend 100 bucks on a dog toy? That guy literally rolls around in shit and chews on driftwood and is thrilled.
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My kitten loses his goddamn mind over wine corks.
NoReturn said:
It's kind of like the "tourists" vs. "authentic tourist" thing. Like, who the fuck they think is working the souvenir stands and working at the food places?
Oh you'd rather live "among them" in their homes? Fucking weirdo. You wouldn't put up with that in your own home would you?
Just buy the trinket so the lady's kids can go to school, goddamn.
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Bruh I've worked at a tourist trap before. I vastly prefer dealing with the more starry-eyed type of tourist than the more obnoxious savvy type. At least the naive type get back on the damn bus at the end of the day. The "authentic" type shit up the local bars all night and God forbid one of them recognizes you from earlier in the day and decides to interact.
 
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NoReturn said:
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Watching some of those actual rich kids trying to flex i can't help but laugh. Sure, they have the money, but, it brought them what? Really ugly plastic houses, blandly decorated and furnished...in areas devoid of history or character... too many cars to drive them all, but a the end of the day a car is just a smelly carcass of plastic and metal that drives you around, you don't need five of them. .. The ugliest pieces of art i have ever seen... The same movie-room they all have, the same ugly-ass Vuitton as a stand-in for European sophistication... the guy showing his tacky-as-hell pseudo-greek pool area ... embarrassing.

I don't envy them.
 
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
Watching some of those actual rich kids trying to flex i can't help but laugh. Sure, they have the money, but, it brought them what? Really ugly plastic houses, blandly decorated and furnished...in areas devoid of history or character... too many cars to drive them all, but a the end of the day a car is just a smelly carcass of plastic and metal that drives you around, you don't need five of them. .. The ugliest pieces of art i have ever seen... The same movie-room they all have, the same ugly-ass Vuitton as a stand-in for European sophistication... the guy showing his tacky-as-hell pseudo-greek pool area ... embarrassing.

I don't envy them.
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My guess is that they're just visiting a "cool" adult or some shit. Basically being groomed.
This thread has learned me to NEVER trust a show-off as actual rich.
 
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Vingle said:
My guess is that they're just visiting a "cool" adult or some shit. Basically being groomed.
This thread has learned me to NEVER trust a show-off as actual rich.
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But that's not really the point.
The point is what they think is aspirational i find empty and ugly.

Also fakers exist, but rich kids who flex online are a thing. Have you forgotten about the time the IRS came knocking on the door of the parents of the rich kids of instagram?
 
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
Watching some of those actual rich kids trying to flex i can't help but laugh. Sure, they have the money, but, it brought them what? Really ugly plastic houses, blandly decorated and furnished...in areas devoid of history or character... too many cars to drive them all, but a the end of the day a car is just a smelly carcass of plastic and metal that drives you around, you don't need five of them. .. The ugliest pieces of art i have ever seen... The same movie-room they all have, the same ugly-ass Vuitton as a stand-in for European sophistication... the guy showing his tacky-as-hell pseudo-greek pool area ... embarrassing.

I don't envy them.
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The American dream is working hard your entire life only to have your sub IQ children post what you own on and where you live, openly on social media
 
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Vingle said:
I really don't care to follow up on Insta-anything.
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You don't have to be on Insta in particular, just to be aware of what's going on, This made headlines in the press. One example from the Guardian.
In short people are dodging taxes by under-reporting their assets, but either themselves, their employees or their kids are out there posting incriminating evidences for clout. The schadenfreude alone made the story go viral at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/mar/11/kanye-and-50-cent-go-for-broke-new-celebronomics

Leading cybersecurity firms said they were using evidence from social media in up to 75% of their litigation cases, ranging from billionaire divorces to asset disputes between oligarchs, with the online activity of super-rich heirs frequently providing the means to bypass their family’s security.
Oisín Fouere, managing director of K2 Intelligence in London, said social media was increasingly their “first port of call”. Their opponent in one asset recovery case claimed to have no significant valuables – until investigators found a social media post by one of his children that revealed they were on his $25m yacht in the Bahamas.
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The growing significance of social media in litigation was recently illustrated by rapper 50 Cent, who was ordered by a Connecticut court last month to explain a photo on Instagram in which he posed with stacks of $100 bills that spelled out “broke”, months after filing for bankruptcy. The rapper claimed the money was fake.
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Andrew Beckett, managing director of cybersecurity and investigations at Kroll, said the firm uncovered multimillion-pound hidden assets in a divorce case last year by monitoring the location of the children’s social media posts. The court ordered the husband to give his wife $30m, but he claimed not to have such assets.
“We monitored social media, particularly for his children, who were in their 20s, and found a lot of posts from the same geo-tagged sites,” said Beckett. “Cross-referencing that with land registry and other similar bodies overseas, we found half a dozen properties that were registered in the name of this person.
“We were able to go to the court with a list of assets that we conservatively estimated at $60m, which the court then seized until he settled the amount that had been ordered.”
 
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Sarcastic sockpuppet said:
You don't have to be on Insta in particular, just to be aware of what's going on, This made headlines in the press. One example from the Guardian.
In short people are dodging taxes by under-reporting their assets, but either themselves, their employees or their kids are out there posting incriminating evidences for clout. The schadenfreude alone made the story go viral at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2016/mar/11/kanye-and-50-cent-go-for-broke-new-celebronomics

Leading cybersecurity firms said they were using evidence from social media in up to 75% of their litigation cases, ranging from billionaire divorces to asset disputes between oligarchs, with the online activity of super-rich heirs frequently providing the means to bypass their family’s security.
Oisín Fouere, managing director of K2 Intelligence in London, said social media was increasingly their “first port of call”. Their opponent in one asset recovery case claimed to have no significant valuables – until investigators found a social media post by one of his children that revealed they were on his $25m yacht in the Bahamas.
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The growing significance of social media in litigation was recently illustrated by rapper 50 Cent, who was ordered by a Connecticut court last month to explain a photo on Instagram in which he posed with stacks of $100 bills that spelled out “broke”, months after filing for bankruptcy. The rapper claimed the money was fake.
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Andrew Beckett, managing director of cybersecurity and investigations at Kroll, said the firm uncovered multimillion-pound hidden assets in a divorce case last year by monitoring the location of the children’s social media posts. The court ordered the husband to give his wife $30m, but he claimed not to have such assets.
“We monitored social media, particularly for his children, who were in their 20s, and found a lot of posts from the same geo-tagged sites,” said Beckett. “Cross-referencing that with land registry and other similar bodies overseas, we found half a dozen properties that were registered in the name of this person.
“We were able to go to the court with a list of assets that we conservatively estimated at $60m, which the court then seized until he settled the amount that had been ordered.”
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Right after I got done reading this I was sent these by a friend of mine, why are people so bad at OPSEC?
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Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Right after I got done reading this I was sent these by a friend of mine, why are people so bad at OPSEC?
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I hope his dogs are safe, but lol at the shoes

Collecting shoes seems like an extra stupid thing and i know it's very popular, but like, those aren't useful to anyone that doesn't happen to have the same shoe size as you. Like if I inherited just a shitload of expensive shoes, I guess I'd have to sell them all. But if they just so happened to be my size, I'd still have to just sell off the lot of them rather than treat them like a lifetime's supply of shoes, because as much as I'd like to walk around in a gaudy pair of Air Yeezys that cost as much as a car, I'd be paranoid as all hell anywhere I go that someone'll try to rob me of them
 
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Pissmaster said:
I hope his dogs are safe, but lol at the shoes

Collecting shoes seems like an extra stupid thing and i know it's very popular, but like, those aren't useful to anyone that doesn't happen to have the same shoe size as you. Like if I inherited just a shitload of expensive shoes, I guess I'd have to sell them all. But if they just so happened to be my size, I'd still have to just sell off the lot of them rather than treat them like a lifetime's supply of shoes, because as much as I'd like to walk around in a gaudy pair of Air Yeezys that cost as much as a car, I'd be paranoid as all hell anywhere I go that someone'll try to rob me of them
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Yeah shoe collections are some of the dumbest things I've ever seen, but even worst are parents that buy their young kid really expensive shoes and get mad when they get dirty

Some of the worst consumers are Lego collectors, especially when it's combined with other consumerist hobbies
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And the ultimate form of consumerism, expensive colleges for a mediocre job
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Johnny Salami said:
Some of the worst consumers are Lego collectors, especially when it's combined with other consumerist hobbies
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And the ultimate form of consumerism, expensive colleges for a mediocre job
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More proof that sociology and Legos do not mix in a society where you can’t even train yourself on how to build blocks with your wealth.
 
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