{"id":270988,"date":"2020-09-03T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=270988"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:16:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:16:46","slug":"consumerism-and-capitalism-can-only-work-through-fomo-fear-of-missing-out-or-through-encouraging-and-preying-people-to-have-low-self-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/consumerism-and-capitalism-can-only-work-through-fomo-fear-of-missing-out-or-through-encouraging-and-preying-people-to-have-low-self-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerism and Capitalism Can Only Work Through FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) or Through Encouraging and Preying People to Have Low Self Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Buy my product and you will have *LESS* <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/the-genesis-of-male-depression\/\">depression<\/a>, *LESS* <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/how-to-conquer-anxiety-4\/\">anxiety<\/a>, and be *LESS* miserable with your life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/is-consumerism-bad\/\">Consumerism<\/a> and fashion &#8212; only works on individuals with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/the-ethics-of-self-esteem\/\">low self esteem<\/a>. And what do you do if the individual has high self esteem? Simple &#8212; use marketing and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/how-to-advertise-yourself\/\">advertising<\/a> to make themselves feel shittier about themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/marketing-masterclass-by-eric-kim\/\">Marketing<\/a> and advertising (in the mainstream sense) as tools to lower our self esteem. And buying a product or a service is the panacea (solution) to our (manufactured) problems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or in other words: Buy my product and you will have *LESS* depression, *LESS* anxiety, and be *LESS* miserable with your life. Consumerism and fashion &#8212; only works on individuals with low self esteem. And what do you do if the individual has high self esteem? Simple &#8212; use marketing and advertising to make themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EK065954-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270999,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270988\/revisions\/270999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}