Fighting over the latest sneaker or whatever is anything but new, but it never ceases to confound me. Is it really that *bleeping* important to have a status symbol? And it *is* all about having the latest status symbol and the bragging rights that come with it. Just blows my mind.
People who put value on their their things are not putting value on themselves. They are dependent on the changeable and unreliable, not the unchangeable and reliable.
Its the same thing as owning a pit bull the shoes make them feel empowered.
Fighting over the latest sneaker or whatever is anything but new, but it never ceases to confound me.
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I suppose such externals are important to a person who has nothing substantive on the inside.
Just think of the all the future crime victims that are going to be assaulted/killed for the Air Jordans they were once wearing.