2025-12-25 17:24:08

Ever notice how the festive season basically becomes a spending spree? Retailers gear up months in advance, influencers push limited edition drops, and suddenly everyone's caught up in this endless cycle of buying things they don't need. The warm feeling? That's tied directly to your wallet these days. Decorations, gifts, special products—it's all engineered to make you feel like you're missing out if you don't participate. Holiday cheer has basically become a function of consumption, wrapped in nostalgia and tradition. Makes you think about what the season could look like outside that framework.

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BearMarketGardener

· 4h ago

That's so true. Every year, as soon as limited editions come out, people rush to buy them with their wallets wide open, and it never stops. --- Holidays have turned into shopping festivals, and we're all just victims. --- Wake up, everyone. This is the trick of capitalism; it'll happen again next year. --- Not buying makes you feel out of place. It's really incredible. What was the purpose of the holiday again? --- Look, my wallet is empty again. Happy holidays🫠 --- Retailers are the happiest. We're still debating whether to buy a fifth ornament. --- Feels like there's a new limited edition every year, and I just can't stop chasing them.

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DefiPlaybook

· 4h ago

Isn't this just classic FOMO arbitrage? Retail investors treat festivals as liquidity mining, and we retail investors are the LPs... The mechanism design of limited edition products is exactly the same as the token issuance logic of some meme coins, honestly.

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MeltdownSurvivalist

· 4h ago

Honestly, holidays are now just a trick to collect IQ taxes The same routine every year, I've seen through it long ago Fake warmth, real wallet emptiness This wave of FOMO marketing is really amazing, each one more ruthless Holidays have become an ATM for consumer desires, not a reason to smile Limited editions, hunger marketing... is this all over again? Wake up, everyone I don't participate in this game, anyway, it's just businessmen harvesting the chives I miss the feeling of holidays without consumer pressure, maybe it's impossible to go back Retailers have tightly controlled human nature this time, it's terrifying upon closer thought Just don't buy, really, who cares about FOMO or not Is there any other way to celebrate besides spending money? Just curious to ask

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