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[โ€“] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. There's a shit ton of materialistic impulse spending that didn't used to exist and doesn't need to exist. I'm guilty of it too.

People have literally been trained by the capitalist system to think they have to buy stuff to be happy. They got us hooked on short term dopamine rushes.

[โ€“] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Now we're too poor to buy stuff so we just exchange dopamine for viewing advertisements. Back in my day you had to listen to rap music and seek bad influences, if you truly wanted to be a scumbag. now it's like the standard personality we crank out. They really closed the loop on young man becomes hedonistic capitalist worshipper. 6 years old, just touched an iPad, already doomed.