Keeping Up With the Joneses and Finding Out They've Refinanced
"Keeping up with the Joneses" is widely used in today's culture given the innate propensity of human beings to want what others have.
Keeping up with the Joneses is one thing. Finding out they've refinanced is quite another.
Using material possessions - homes, cars, vacations, possessions - to define success in one's life illustrates the danger of riches.
When we compare our lives with the lives of others, we look only at their outsides. What others allow us to see. We often covet. Which sometimes leads us to do whatever it takes to keep up with them.
Then when we think we are finally equal…
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