I think her post was really about the dishonesty of articles, books, etc that claim to be giving helpful money-saving advice when really they're about either spending more or at the very least buying into deeply unhelpful patterns of thinking. And about the lies we tell ourselves.
And about the lies that other people tell us, to sell us things. If you can use someone's feminism or insecurities or emotional problems or broken family or desire for social justice to manipulate them into buying more, why on earth wouldn't you try using their desire to spend less to manipulate them into buying more? Particularly since it works almost every time you try it!
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Date: 2008-11-30 03:31 pm (UTC)And about the lies that other people tell us, to sell us things. If you can use someone's feminism or insecurities or emotional problems or broken family or desire for social justice to manipulate them into buying more, why on earth wouldn't you try using their desire to spend less to manipulate them into buying more? Particularly since it works almost every time you try it!