The act of wasting money is something that wasn't practical to me, it was a form of the holy grail because it was majorly meant for people who had the will to enact their desires.
Will in this in instance, translates to money. I felt like it was a luxury that came with being irresponsible to a certain extent, but when I grew older, I came to understand that this wasn't true.
Being grossly irresponsible with money doesn't necessarily correlate with our values or prudence. It is something that happens when we make attempts at making tough calls in life and being in difficult situations.
In life, we often underestimate our survival skills but one thing we don't know is that these skills are most relevant, when we're faced with extreme scarcity.
The proportional Exposure To Abundance & Scarcity
This is the same with being faced with extreme abundance, the last part we fail to understand is that we're most vulnerable to making mistakes with money, our financial discipline and economic principles are like to be compromised when we're faced with little needs and we're spoilt with a handful of choices.
This is how big companies tend to take money away from people. Our power to consume is enormous but we're originally limited by our will.
Sometimes we're comfortable with being in lack because it takes away our excesses, but the thing is that irrespective of our financial discipline, there are people who are continually studying ways to make money off our hands, even if we're the ones making the decision.
Studying & Selling Extremities
The world of supply and demand is deceptive, we have people who are willing to sell extremities to us whilst marketing them as our needs. They're in colleges, studying the psychology of marketing, to understand human consumer behavior, its intricacies, and the biggest ways to exploit it.
we might think the reason for this is for better understanding and servicing but then, the underlying reason is to make a profit at all costs. In life, being wealthy takes extreme measures, this is why most big techs will never tell you they're selling your data.
We live in a world where we are fed with endless choices, but we don't necessarily feel this is bad because we're domineering, it's not in our nature to be sequestered by limitations.
AI Marketing & Advertising: Comfort Or Exploitation?
Here's A Shocker
The concept of advertising isn't meant to give people the answer to their problems, it's part of sophistication though, the new age we are in the age of AI marketing it's meant to bring people to a point of realization and since this is comfortable and revolutionary.
It takes power and gives it to the manufacturer, allowing them to determine the things we need in life to thrive.
Sometimes, we can feel ourselves budgeting, trying to stay within a spending range but at the end of the day, we never do. When I was younger, we had a shopping list and this isn't because my parents wanted me to remember everything we were buying, the reason for this was that we wanted to stay within a range.
Choices: Are We Really Free?
No... But why?
The value we accorded to money was proportional, we had to keep it tethered to our monthly incomes and due to this, people were prudent even without planning to be. However, it's different nowadays. The plan to be prudent is often foiled by incessant exposure to numerous choices, advertising, and inflation.
The truth is that there are huge disadvantages and downsides to sophistication but we'll continue to have the advantages it brings us. We live in a world where control is beneficial.
However, we like to live in the illusion that we're free irrespective of the fact that it's visible that some of our choices are what we initially planned or wanted. However, it's even difficult to classify what we want, need, or even desire and this is because of the change in our mode of preferences, which is determined by the external influence of exposure. However, can we change this?
Interested in some more of my works?
The Intrinsic Propensity To Spend Money
Poverty: The Unwillingness To Spend?
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The Importance Of Having A Contingency Money Plan
Translational Value; What Is Your Worth?
Using Crypto As A Means Of Transferring Will
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