Re:The Anxiety of Influencers
by redisman on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:39PM
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You don't have to be rich to buy luxury goods. In fact most of them are bought by people who can't afford them but desperately want to own them. There's credit cards, parents, using all your disposable income on them since you don't pay rent, etc.
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Re:The Anxiety of Influencers
by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:48AM
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I recently read that half of Ferrari owners in the UK have a net worth of less than £1M.
Link to the source? That's a very interesting statistic
Right. The people who can actually afford $500 shoes aren't the ones buying Balenciaga sneakers that look like clown shoes. Actual wealthy people are generally not easily influenced suckers.
Yes they are, but they can afford to buy everything nice, not just a few ridiculous things.
Also, poor people aren't buying Lambos and crashing them.
> Actual wealthy people are generally not easily influenced suckers.
I think you only have to look at the truly high-end luxury market to see that that's not true. A _staggering_ amount is spent on absurd products that only multi-millionaires can afford. And they've very much doing it to one-up the other multi-millionaires.
The likes of watches that cost tens of thousands and cars that cost hundreds of thousands are generally actually-wealthy-person territory, say.
Re:The Anxiety of Influencers
by RugnirViking on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:15AM
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> Actual wealthy people are generally not easily influenced suckers
source? no, seriously. All the marketing I see for luxury products and more generally point to yes, rich people are exactly as suceptible to advertising to poor people, if not more so due to having a greater share of disposable income.