Re:The Anxiety of Influencers
by nradov on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:14PM
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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.
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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.