re: #53 freetoken

So, I continue to plow through the myriad of house flipping/renovating/buying&selling shows (why… I don’t know)… and the same old stories come up again and again but there is something so clearly upfront in so many of the episodes that I think it deserves more comment.

Namely, parents seem to always want to move so their children can get into a “better” school district.

Now, I have no experience with this. When I was growing up there was just one school district.

There is a undertone of social disorder going on in these shows (besides the naked materialism and desire to boast).

It’s not always about bigotry - though I suspect there is an element of that.

There is something very very bad about the entire real estate industry that is designed to make people feel inadequate.

Have you not noticed that much marketing and advertising is designed to make people feel inadequate?

One of the reasons I shifted early from making the big bucks in advertising design for big consumer goods and services and went into technical markets with things like electronics for industry, manufacturing, high performance auto parts and the like.

I couldn’t take the BS and the egos in the agencies and how they use stature and getting over on others as a method to sell. Just couldn’t do it.