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Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling. So wh

Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling. So why should fear encourage spending money more than any other feeling. How about the idea that a joyful person is much more inclined to spend money - but on different things. Just imagine a world without any fear, just with different kind of markets and the same amount of money.

astrobe_ 9y ago
> Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling It seems to me that a significant part of the press and TV news are selling just that - fear. It doesn't take long to find a word like "threat", example taken at random, on the first page of the NYT ("Shinzo Abe: Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat").
- chii 9y ago
  If you have fear, then you'd be more willing to give up certain freedoms to rid said fear. Freedoms such as privacy. Mark my words, there's going to definitely be massive facial recognition on the population, in the name of keeping you "safe".
Fricken 9y ago
Joyful people don't spend much money because they're already satisfied. When people dish out for large homes, expensive cars and whatever else, they do it because they're insecure about something. If you subtract the cost of our insecurities and fears from the cost of living, life is actually really cheap.
tr1ck5t3r 9y ago
Putting the fear of God into people has worked since the time of Jesus. Dont change what's not broken.
coldtea 9y ago
>Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling. So why should fear encourage spending money more than any other feeling. Because amassing stuff gives psychological relief from such anxiety ("shopping therapy"). The same reason people on midlife crises go on shopping sprees... >* Just imagine a world without any fear, just with different kind of markets and the same amount of money.* Not all possible worlds have the same level of shopping activity. It took heavy advertising and quite a lot of conditioning and pressure for early 20th century society to turn it into the shopping culture that it has today.

astrobe_ 9y ago

> Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling It seems to me that a significant part of the press and TV news are selling just that - fear. It doesn't take long to find a word like "threat", example taken at random, on the first page of the NYT ("Shinzo Abe: Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat").

chii 9y ago
If you have fear, then you'd be more willing to give up certain freedoms to rid said fear. Freedoms such as privacy. Mark my words, there's going to definitely be massive facial recognition on the population, in the name of keeping you "safe".

Fricken 9y ago

Joyful people don't spend much money because they're already satisfied. When people dish out for large homes, expensive cars and whatever else, they do it because they're insecure about something. If you subtract the cost of our insecurities and fears from the cost of living, life is actually really cheap.

tr1ck5t3r 9y ago

Putting the fear of God into people has worked since the time of Jesus. Dont change what's not broken.

coldtea 9y ago

>Nah, i don't think that's it. Fear is a feeling, which is per default not any more or less connected to "i need to buy this thing" than any other feeling. So why should fear encourage spending money more than any other feeling. Because amassing stuff gives psychological relief from such anxiety ("shopping therapy"). The same reason people on midlife crises go on shopping sprees... >* Just imagine a world without any fear, just with different kind of markets and the same amount of money.* Not all possible worlds have the same level of shopping activity. It took heavy advertising and quite a lot of conditioning and pressure for early 20th century society to turn it into the shopping culture that it has today.