It sounds more like he's referencing being well dressed and reminiscing back to the days when everyone wore a suit, for example.
Fact is most people will not benefit at all from this. Back then how you dressed would greatly impact your reputation and your career. Today, thanks to mass immigration from the left, the vast majority of people are going to make the same whether you dress nicely or dress like a slob.
Actually some of the most well-dressed people I see in day to day life are either complete dorks or materialistic AF. And the cancer of materialism has it's roots in the early to mid 1900s that OP is likely reminiscing about, so that's not very surprising.
Mindless consumerism isn't something to aspire to. Going back to the root of our dysfunction and the root of corporate America really isn't going to help the situation. It was a tool to control the masses and replace our culture and religions with products and services. Obsession with appearance created the shallow worldview that most Americans to this day still have. The most down to earth people today are the ones with worn out boots and torn up jeans (one of three pairs they actually own).
I get what you mean, and I can totally relate to your point on most of those people being small-minded and materialistic.
Still, it is nice to reminisce about the days where people had pride in what they wore. As you said, multiculturalism has fucked that for us, because it’s apparently racist to expect muds not to look like shit, lmao.
VERY WELL SAID!!! I agree completely!
the vast majority of people are going to (treat you) the same whether you dress nicely or dress like a slob
As it should be. The only reason to treat someone differently based on their clothes is if you mistake wealth for class, honor, or morals.
When I see wealthy privileged kids I think of Hunter.
You can tell yourself that all you want and still won't be true. Clothes make the man (and woman). It has nothing to do with imagining "materialism" is the cause. It's social respect and is rewarded.
Many of the most mindless consumers wear nothing but old t-shirts and torn jeans. "Corporate America" as you put it, has their best consumers brainwashed into believing life lived in a hog trough and sty are respectable. Instead of clean homes, healthy families and tidy clothes, consumers wallow in piles of useless tech toys, volumes of digital nothingness and acquire "virtue" via an electric car filled with trash. They're not "down to earth" they're depressed and suicidal
That's probably the dumbest take I've heard in a long time. You're effectively arguing that simple living is the real consumerism and "Keeping up with the Joneses" is red-pilled. Tesla owners wear worn out jeans and old clothes... Gosh you're dumb. I live in a liberal area full of wealthy snooty liberals. There is a Tesla dealership right up the street. It is NOT homeless looking people with messy houses buying these cars, mind-numbingly retarded take. "Keeping up with the Joneses" originates in the early 1900s when people dressed and acted exactly as how you describe. Those are the people buying these cars and they look down on the people who have lived here for generations. The people with torn up shirts, old clothes and messy houses. Every time they drive by they're thinking "I can't wait until the rifraf is permanently expelled". Blue collar workers with junk yards who wear overalls every day who are overwhelmingly conservative. You are honestly something else.
My ancestors were Amish Mennonites as are many of my relatives. They as a whole are extremely clean and tidy.
Only a pig would believe a sty is an example of "simple living" to be emulated and lauded. The rest of your confused attempt of counterargument, other than agreeing with what I said and disagreeing with yourself, sounds like you have a personal problem with basic social niceties.
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