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When consumer culture creates shame around economic limitations

My daughter came home crying because her friends all have the new iPhone and she's embarrassed by her three-year-old phone, and I don't know how to explain that we can't afford it without making her feel poor.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Market-driven status systems transform economic inequality into social exclusion, forcing children to bear the weight of circumstances beyond their control.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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