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Lmao no sympathy for anyone who buys expensive shoes. You're gonna cram your stinky feet in them then stomp around in the dirt. May as well buy designer toilet paper.
Edit: alright then ya'll keep buying $600 shitkickers because they have a picture of a rich guy on the side or Limited Edition blorange-colored laces.
Buy decent shoes that last well and provide good support. Anything else is stupid.
Once you're older than 15 you will discover that a few things in life can have a massive impact on your general well being and health, and it absolutely makes sense to spend big on those. Good shoes are one of these things, a quality mattress appropriate for your body type is another.
I didn't say not to buy quality shoes, but those are $100 max, if someone spends more on a logo, they're a chump.
When you're older than 15, your reading comprehension will improve and you'll be better able to understand what grownups mean with their words.
When you mature as a human being, whatever age that may be, you develop kindness through a willingness to understand and empathize with perspectives that conflict with your own. That doesn't necessarily mean you have to accept it for yourself. For many people, clothing is not simply a means of pragmatic function. It's also a source of self-expression, joy, and beauty. Now for me, $600 for a pair of sneakers is exorbitant and ridiculous no matter who designed it. But it's not a product for me. And if someone with the means feels great buying and wearing them, I don't see the harm. I don't usually pay more than I have to for footwear, but I would pay a premium for certain kitchen tools I use all the time if I like the design, enjoy looking at it, and feel good using it. What I do sympathize with and would like to see reduced in harm is the consumerist culture that pressures people with less means into feeling like they have to have such things for fulfillment.
"What I do sympathize with and would like to see reduced in harm is the consumerist culture that pressures people with less means into feeling like they have to have such things for fulfillment."
We're saying the same exact thing. You just went on a long preachy monologue first to try to make yourself seem smarter/superior to others, while simultaneously being denigrative towards the people you're addressing, which is the exact thing you're preaching about not doing. Furthermore, you didn't even reply to the right person, I'm not the one who chose to disagree with someone only to then say the exact thing they just said.
Everyone in this thread is just repeating the same thing I said yet somehow I'm the asshole. Get a grip, people.
The fact that you don't understand that you're NOT saying the same thing... is pretty sad. Not sure if it's because you have poor reading comprehension or that you're just so clearly emotionally invested in this that you can't see it clearly, but either way, it's pretty sad.
"Lmao no sympathy for anyone who buys expensive shoes"
^this you?