Think about it. Why do people 'need' make-up products, perfumes, and other material objects that won't enhance their lives in any way?
Because, people with high self-esteem don't buy as much teeth whitening products, diet pills, and cosmetic procedures.
In a consumer-driven society like ours, it benefits the economy when you feel bad about yourself.
Yes, society profits from your insecurities in all forms, and it isn't just for advertising companies to make revenue from your poor self-esteem. When we are insecure we are easier to control.
Through a de-humanizing screen we are locked inside a nightmare of contaminated and toxic imagery that is created to disempower and restrict us from thinking straight.
Centuries of social and cultural programming have been laid upon all of us. We are led to believe that when we hit early adulthood we are somehow marked down in status-price like last months steak in a meat market.
Thinking you arent good enough is mainly a trap created by marketing professionals and big business. I have also fallen into the illusion many times throughout my life. Struggling with poor self esteem.
And to think, people were shunned in the 17th century if they weren't pale, well-rounded, and had fair and feminine features. Society has always had and always will have a 'mold' but today we have digital media and technology to amplify everything.
Today, so many individuals are spending their life savings on trying to fit that mold. Breast inplants because what they were born with is apparently not good enough. Buying fake hair that doesnt even come from their own heads. Striving for what society deems as 'perfection'
As long as you are somehow contributing to the consumeristic, capitalistic manufactured society of a dying world