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How status spending creates the opposite of intended security

I keep buying expensive things for my apartment to prove to myself that I have made it, but the credit card debt is making me more anxious than the possessions make me happy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Material signaling of success becomes self-defeating when the cost of status undermines the security it attempts to demonstrate.

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