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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