They WANT/NEED/MUST HAVE you spend. [View All]

[originalpckelly]

If you didn't, you might actually save your money and you might actually get ahead, instead of living in a system where you're indebted and live paycheck to paycheck.

That's why they want you to spend. "They" are the people who are investors and own you *cough* sorry *cough* your future earnings, and any earnings you made in the past.

They have constructed a system that crushes individuality. Everything is the same, with the appearance of individuality.

All clothes purchased at big stores are made by their companies, and they streamline choice to make it more efficient to manufacture your clothes. You can mix and match to create a perceived individuality in your clothing. However, in reality, there are thousands if not millions of people who own the same shirt. At the same moment you're wearing your shirt, there is probably more than a few hundred people wearing the exact same shirt. Think about that. But it doesn't matter, because you're wearing different pants. On the other hand, someone out there is probably wearing the same pants, even in the same size. You're not unique in your clothing choice. You think you are, because you don't easily recognize mix and match outfits as the same thing.

If we were all wearing one piece outfits, the probability we'd run into people wearing the same thing would be quite high. Dresses are a good example of a generally accepted one piece outfit. I remember watching the White House correspondents dinner one year not too long ago. There were three women who were wearing the exact same red dress. Thinking back on it, this shows why we tend not to wear one piece outfits. Can you imagine how weird it would be if you ran into people wearing the same thing all the time? You can't tell, as I previously explained, because the probability you'd run into someone wearing the same exact two piece outfit is dramatically lower than a one piece. Even if you're wearing the same shirt, different bottoms/jacket/prominent accessories would cause you to look different, because the number of combinations is as large as the number of bottoms/jackets/prominent accessories sold in the last few years (or even longer for items that have more of a timeless appeal).

This is just one sector of the economy, but it is such a personal one, it's such a violation of who we are because clothes are in our personal space, right next to our bodies.

If something that we wear as an extension of ourselves is not unique, then what is?

I don't think there is much actual variation/individuality in the America today. You can have anything you like, so long as it's sold by a big corporation and mass manufactured.

We're all wearing the same thing, and yet we'll never see it.