If you deep dive into just about any community you'll find it full of obsessives and shopping addicts. There are many people who buy limited edition makeup and let it sit it a drawer or display it. People collect pens that cost thousands of dollars each. The knitting world has the term SABLE which stands for stash accumulated beyond life expectancy, and it's not just for little old ladies with a year or two left.
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its easier to waste money that wasn't earned and didn't come as product of any real effort.
Every hobbist / brand slave thinks his obsession helps "build a community". But ask yourself: does the community base itself on sharing of knowledge, experience, and fun? Or is it based on mutual competition, exploitation, and spiteful bragging (both the old-timey "fuck you got mine" type and the postmodern "virtue signal" type)?
People may disagree but if you care to learn about the background of the stuff you collect -- and that background is not pre-written pop-culture "lore" -- then you're clear in my book.
If your coins, stamps, military memorabilia etc compel you to study the countries and periods of history in question, well that's a purpose other than simply owning a product.
It's a psychological defense. You feel people are looking down on you for not owning cool things, so you overcompensate.
lol, no. buying product on ebay is not a requisite to study history
I can understand why. Anime culture is pretty much a "pick your poison" type of crowd where everything goes so long as you don't piss on someone else's pool. SJWs do that all the time to people they deem to have an "incorrect" view of the world. Look at how they treated poor Gina Carrano. One wrong tweet, and not only was she fired, but the woke mob went after her. I can see the Japanese anime crowd seeing the American cancel culture in action trying to censor works like Uzaki-chan and Goblin Slayer, and I can understand them being upset that western social justice people are so sanctimonious about censoring what other people love.
This is why viewing Japan solely through the lens of WEEB culture is horribly misguided. Otaku culture is just one small part of Japan, there's a lot of other influences there that would barely even care about anime culture, not to mention they're not very welcoming of all outsiders there. Unlike other Asian countries like Taiwan and the Philippines where almost everything has adapted to suit English-speakers, Japanese society insists on being for the Japanese, by the Japanese, with things like language barriers being a hard thing to get through if you don't know the language, let alone the mannerisms of locals. Expecting Japan to adapt to the needs of a bunch of foreign weirdos who only care about cartoons is greatly misguided.
Things based around fan art are usually hubs of people drawing arbitrary lines in the sand is the same the world over. Because it's not just libtards, they have a whole list of other groups they hate before you get to libtards.
People on benefits, at least in the US, are encouraged to spend that money as soon as they get it. You can actually lose your benefits if you save too much of the money in your bank account.
Is that true? Holy shit what a retarded system.
Custom keyboards is a good hobby when you don't go full reddit with it. It's not really a CONSOOOM sort of hobby unless you scrape the bottom of the barrel and just buy normal market stuff since custom stuff is often made in smaller batches and through group buys so its all fairly limited. waiting 8 months of a keycap set to be made or keyboard to be made kinda prevents that sorta buy buy buy habbit.
You're absolutely right that sneakerheads aren't shunned at all. This thread makes me think of PJ Tucker, the biggest sneakerhead in the NBA. When the NBA resumed play after the coronavirus pause, they gathered everyone at Disney in Orlando and housed all the players and staff in hotels for a couple of months to minimize outside contact and finish the season. Tucker brought 110 pairs of sneakers with him to the fucking NBA bubble, more than a pair per day. Of course it's easier to make excuses for Tucker as he's a multimillionaire athlete, so he's got comparably more disposable income than some of the other people listed here, but how different is he than your run of the mill hoarder?
For SSI(pretty sure Chris Chan is on this), this is true. Not so sure about other forms of welfare. You can't have more than $2000 in countable assets. This is one reason many people think you can't participate in the stock market and also be on disability.
Of course it's true. The government wants that money back in the system, and they want you to spend that shit. They don't want you actually getting richer, they want you buying more shit to feed the corporate machine that pays them taxes.
DO NOT CREATE, JUST CONSUME PRODUCT AND GET EXCITED FOR NEXT PRODUCT.
Mediocre people want everyone ro be mediocre.
No bets, don't wanna GAMBOOOL
