What is something people are 100% brainwashed into believing they need?

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What is something people are 100% brainwashed into believing they need?

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  1. ducksucktiddyphuck Avatar

    Streaming services. Oh, I NEED to see my shows. I need my sports. The classics aren’t on most services and the new stuff is trash. They jack the prices on these packages, remove content…people cry and then pay it anyway. I have 2 services for my wife. I pay $15 for a bundle. I see people paying $100/mo for streaming and thats just tv…thats not even like Spotify or Adobe. Just Netflix, Max, Peacock, etc. It’s insane. The only service I can ever find something to watch is Tubi and it’s FREE. I’m not saying having 2 or even 3 is bad. But these people who have kids and a job and still get 5,6,7 services on top of YT tv which is like $80/month by itself…how do you have time for all that?

  2. thymetogohome Avatar

    A lot of things for babies. Babies don’t need things, parents think they need things to make their lives easier.

    Diaper genies are not easier and 100% more gross and that’s a hill I will die on.

  3. Paulthekid10-4 Avatar

    New cars/clothes/pics for the gram

  4. marcellabp Avatar
  5. JustMe1235711 Avatar

    New cars, new clothes, new rugs, new homes, new stuff.

  6. ajm_usn321 Avatar

    Climbing the corporate ladder. You spend years stepping on rungs made of stress and unpaid overtime, only to realize the top floor belongs to someone else—and they just pulled the ladder up behind them.

  7. awholedamngarden Avatar

    An endless stream of clothes/accessories to follow every trend. Overconsumption of clothing is a huge issue

  8. Hohenmeyer2 Avatar

    A new car as soon as the old car is paid off

  9. WolfGrouchy1953 Avatar

    A relationship. Learn to be happy on your own and things will fall into place

  10. Loud-Entertainer7218 Avatar
  11. Kajega Avatar

    A million vitamins and supplements every day, like hundreds of dollars a month amounts.

  12. AnimatorDifficult429 Avatar

    The way our homes are with rooms and how they are decorated. It’s kinda all the same and we just have references to how they are supposed to be. Like you can make your house whatever ridiculousness you want, but most don’t 

  13. CountlessStories Avatar

    To prove they’re right.

    You don’t need to reply to every comment that denies the point you were trying to make. Your time is valuable. State your points and move on with your life.

  14. loki143 Avatar

    Bottled water

  15. OverallAd9706 Avatar

    A need to sympathize with billionaires and celebrities who don’t give two shits about us.

  16. ShadyMyLady Avatar

    The newest phone every year no matter the price.

  17. NarrowIntroduction84 Avatar

    The belief that everyone needs to have children, which, in my opinion, is a dangerous mindset since you have people who neglect their kids abuse their kids murder there kids ect

  18. ResponsibleYellow210 Avatar

    Validation from any source other than yourself

  19. SaltyPopcornKitty Avatar

    Designer anything.

  20. peterAtheist Avatar

    Religion, any of them, past, current and future ones

  21. Any_Proof5592 Avatar

    Democrats and Republicans

  22. alangbas Avatar

    Expensive weddings.

  23. smack4u Avatar

    You can fix stuff. Don’t have to replace every time.

  24. InstructionFair5221 Avatar

    Religion to be a good person….you need empathy

  25. sparkyvt Avatar

    Fabric softener. Just more perfumes and probably micro plastics.

  26. Major-Check-1953 Avatar

    A new smartphone every year. Waste of money on a supposed status symbol.

  27. jcb1982 Avatar

    Church. Marriage. Children.

  28. ovid31 Avatar

    Super white teeth. It doesn’t look weird at all.

  29. Content-Fudge489 Avatar

    Big trucks when not in the trades. Big SUVs for a family of 4. Etc. etc.

  30. iAMguppy Avatar

    To ruin the lives of people that are different than they are.

  31. DJGlennW Avatar

    Designer anything.

    “Tactical” anything.

  32. screwedupinaz Avatar

    Religion.
    One of my favorite sayings is from a meme: “If you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you’re just a bad person on a leash.”

  33. Kdoodle-kitten Avatar

    Fabric softener and dryer sheets

  34. AdTop8258 Avatar
  35. its-how-i-roll Avatar

    Gender Reveal…

  36. business_socksss Avatar

    A 12 step skin care routine

  37. LornaWhirl Avatar

    A 4-year degree for jobs that pay you $18/hr and ask if you’re “passionate about Excel.”

  38. Silver_Effective_988 Avatar

    To fully associate with the left or right politically

  39. bored36090 Avatar

    More and more shit

  40. AdMurky3039 Avatar

    Keurigs. Making coffee is not that hard or time-consuming.

  41. oswaldcopperpot Avatar

    Non-stick pans. Ill die on this hill.

  42. MattWolf96 Avatar

    Expensive funerals and coffins.

    Just incinerate me when it’s time. I’ll be dead, I obviously won’t care. And even if I did believe in an afterlife I still don’t see why I would care as I wouldn’t be hanging around my old self.

  43. ungovernable1984 Avatar

    Perpetual economic growth

  44. petalnesst Avatar

    New phones every year. Companies drop one tiny feature and suddenly everyone thinks their old phone’s useless. It’s wild how deep that marketing runs.