Luxury Brands Are A SCAM

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• CL

  @ClimateCassandra2015 · 2 years ago

  Underdeveloped=Overexploited

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• SO

  @someotheralias · 2 years ago

  At this point, they’re just mocking poor people and seeing how far they would go to buy the brand. We’re social test subjects.

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• CA

  @candy2325 · 2 years ago

  Balenciaga is the trashiest most tackiest brand 🤢 I agree with your statement of it being a social experiment by setting high prices for stupid ass shit like a towel skirt, dirty shoes and potato chip bag, so people who are low income can claim it. It’s an absolute mess

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• LA

  @Lasagna_Garfield_ · 2 years ago

  I agree, I don’t want to be an “elite”. I just want to live comfortably and not have to decide whether I should buy groceries or pay bills this week

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• TH

  @thunderwolf4237 · 2 years ago

  Luxury brands are definitely a silly concept. There's nothing wrong with having something nice but when you feel the need to flaunt it to others because you think it will give you some kind of status is actually counterproductive. Most people don't really care how green another person grass is because they're too focused on their own grass. lol

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• VV

  @vvitch-mist20 · 2 years ago

  I got a new sewing kit and I just wanna make my own "luxury bags" lol.

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• XG

  @xg2513 · 2 years ago

  So many luxury brands are so ugly too! Like if I’m gonna pay $1,000 for a bag (hypothetically), I want a beautiful quality bag , covered with like 3D fabric flowers. I want a dress that’s a gown covered in 3D monarch butterflies (not real of course). I see all of these luxury brands and rich people clothing and I’m like this looks so ugly! If I had “eff you” money, I would want creative beautiful pieces made of quality materials. It’s a much bigger “brag” (to me anyway) to be able to say “I paid top dollar for this quality bag, hand made and designed by people who were paid a liveable wage, and it’s a creative artistic piece I can carry with me”. Do any of you get what I mean?

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• DA

  @daisyvision · 2 years ago

  It's a shame that Marilyn Monroe is remembered as such a caricature. She was nothing like her "Diamonds" character Lorelei, and in fact, she resented "dumb blonde" roles! She rented jewelry and designer dresses to wear to events, but dressed and lived quite modestly in "real life", to the point where people seldom recognized her in person unless she was "in character". For me, it started with admiring her beauty - and I am forever grateful that I was more interested in the woman than the diamonds she wore, since instead I got to know the woman behind that iconic image - a very intellectual, compassionate, and complex person whose strength of character and resilience continue to inspire me today.

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• JA

  @jackiemiller6209 · 2 years ago

  Even before knowing this i don't understand spending so much for a handbag. I can think of so many other things to spend my money on.

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• SC

  @sceetsceet03 · 2 years ago

  I've always said, "I just want to be comfortable." I don't want or need millions.

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• AS

  @ashleygarcia3631 · 2 years ago

  That's why i don't like when famous people say they are against child labor, exploitation of people, etc. and then are out wearing these high end brands....you wouldn't wear something you're against 🙂

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• LE

  @Lexy2526 · 2 years ago

  From an italian i think there's very big problems in our country too many people in too many jobs that are used and paid too less too many families like mine barely getting over the line of the month and the scary perception that us student will never have a good job or be treated nicely (here in italy many job bosses? i don't know how to say it but they continue to be angry at us young people for not wanting an exhausting job for a pay that's less than enough to get a rent saying that we don't want to work) but the real probelm are the politicians that raise taxes and the price of everything but not the money we get at the end of the month i see too many people get only carts of water at markets because they work at fields and they get enough money to only get the cheapest things to survive such as water. it's a bad economical thing that affects all of us

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