The High of the Buy (aka Shopping Addiction)
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You got problems that you either concerned with, blah, you don't know how you're supposed to earn it or what to do with it or how to keep it. |
| 0:08.0 | You're a freak with a dark shame, full secret, but you're not the only one who keeps your illicit fine natural fears with a blessed son. |
| 0:16.0 | Now your healing has begun, it's bad with wanting with Gabby. |
| 0:22.0 | Done. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everyone, it's me, Gabby done. |
| 0:26.0 | Trying as usual not to be bad with money. |
| 0:29.0 | Also you should know it's Gabby done because there was just a whole theme song that played. |
| 0:33.0 | Unless you miss the part where it says my name in the theme song. |
| 0:37.0 | That's right, it says my name in the theme song. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm important, no. |
| 0:49.0 | It's really hard to be good with money. |
| 0:52.0 | I have had this show for three years and I am still terrible, terrible with money because we live in a society that clearly wants me to spend lots and lots of it. |
| 1:03.0 | The average person reportedly sees about 4,000 advertisements every day. |
| 1:10.0 | So how am I supposed to be good with money with all of that going on? |
| 1:14.0 | An advertiser's aren't the only ones telling us to spend. |
| 1:17.0 | The news tells us over and over that the health of our economy depends on, that's right, consume or spending. |
| 1:23.0 | It is basically our civic duty to buy lots and lots of things, whether we need those things or not. |
| 1:29.0 | So with all these voices imploring us to spend money, it can feel like we're culturally addicted to shopping. |
| 1:35.0 | But for some people this addiction is a very real clinical condition. |
| 1:39.0 | In fact, 6% of the US population are what experts call compulsive buyers, which is the official term for shopping addiction. |
| 1:46.0 | And even though most of us don't fall into that camp, we're all impacted by a culture that enables it. |
| 1:50.0 | For example, we're told that we'll be happier or sexier or trendier if we buy certain things. |
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