Want to know why the gap between the haves and the have-nots keeps growing? Because the haves live within their means. They don’t waste their hard-earned money on all the crap that Americans spend billions, maybe even trillions, on each year.
American consumers seem to have an almost insatiable appetite for just about any type of useless garbage that anyone decides to make in China for a few bucks and sell here for a few hundred. Which is probably why nobody has any savings and everyone complains they don’t have enough money to live on.
Actually, the problem is much worse than that. The all-consuming consumer is like a lifestyle choice that’s quickly becoming the norm. What’s it all for? Honestly, I really don’t know. All I do know is that it wastes far more than our money. It wastes our time. It wastes our lives. And it doesn’t make us happy. It makes us miserable.
To recap, the economy built on buying useless consumer crap is now your fault, consumers. When the one percenters buy cars and pet toys and smartphones, that's the economy. When your ass buys it, it's waste and making you miserable.
Tobak then goes on to rage for another 1500 words at Costco, Whole Foods, and basketball courts that "nobody plays on", and of course ends with saying that really, if all you brokeass mofos would just embrace the fact that you're supposed to be poor like GOP Jesus intended you to be, while guys like Tobak continue to shill for the obscenely rich folks buying up Congress to have them continue to get rid of police, schools, firefighters, environmental protections and the oversight on exploding fertilizer plants, you'd be content with the crumbs that fall to the floor and you'd generally be much happier!
Here’s the thing. Life is for living, not owning or buying. Just ask any legitimate Buddhist monk and he’ll tell you: the less you have, the happier you’ll be. The simple things make you happy. Complicated things make you miserable. No kidding.
Says the former Silicon Valley exec. Considering Americans have less than ever before, we should be thrilled, right?
Wait - a guy that works for a company that earns money by selling advertising is saying that we should stop buying things? Plus, I'm bemused by the idea that the "haves" are envious of the "have-nots" because the have-nots aren't burdened by the cares of taking care of the yachts, the ski lodge, the mansion in the South of France... sounds like one of Tom the Dancing Bug's "Lucky Ducky" cartoons.
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