this is why i kind of hate shopping.
advertising is ridiculously annoying because it implicitly communicates that if you don't have their product your life will be miserable, but if you do all your probs will go away and people will like you and you'll be happy and shit and that's bs because happiness comes from inside you, cliche as it is, it doesn't matter how many things you purchase. and that's why i think people in consumerist societies end up unhappy a lot of the time. because they're trained to think buying whatever particular thing will make them happy, except afterward they're exactly the same, they haven't changed as a person, which ends up being disappointing, which leads to dysphoria.