Being the strongest consumer base in a production economy isn't power — it's dependency. You don't control what you can only buy. Every dollar spent on sneakers, weaves, and luxury goods leaves the community and builds someone else's infrastructure, someone else's schools, someone else's political influence. The money doesn't circulate — it extracts.
Claud Anderson's work makes this point precisely: a consumer economy rewards producers, not consumers. Spending power without productive power is not an asset — it's a market. You are not powerful because corporations want your money. You are useful to them. Those are opposite things.
And the deeper problem is the spending itself is not neutral behavior. It is the captured imagination expressing itself through the one avenue the system left open. When your self-worth has been systematically attacked since birth, consumption becomes the available substitute for identity. You buy the sneaker because owning it briefly closes the gap between who you've been told you are and who you want to be. That's not a purchasing decision. That's a psychological condition being monetized.
Turning that condition into a source of pride — "we're the strongest consumer base" — is not reclaiming power. It's rebranding the wound.:
And this is what disappoints me.
To hear someone who has spent his entire career selling the very symbols of validation that keep our people psychologically dependent describe the problem as though he stands outside of it is unbelievable.
He didn't just benefit from the system. He helped reproduce it.
He sold the sneakers.
He sold the jewelry.
He sold the image.
He sold the idea that your value could be purchased.
And he's still selling it.
I would bet his garage is filled with luxury cars. I would bet he owns hundreds of pairs of sneakers. I would bet he owns enough jewelry to finance several businesses. S*** he reproduce that mentality in his own damn child. And that would be okay but he's selling it to our children and they are not the only ones buying it. The rest of the world is buying that they are criminals, in treating them as such.
So to describe the condition as though you are merely observing it, rather than having profited from it, completely misses the point.
Then comes the biggest mistake of all.
"We sell."
No, we don't.
We buy.
Those are two completely different positions.
The producer determines the symbols.
The consumer purchases the symbols.
The producer controls the validation.
The consumer chases it.
That means someone else still controls the images, the aspirations, the definitions of success, and ultimately the imagination of the people consuming them.
That isn't economic power.
It's psychological dependency masquerading as economic participation.
And this is what disappoints me.
To hear someone who has spent his entire career selling the very symbols of validation that keep our people psychologically dependent describe the problem as though he stands outside of it is unbelievable.
He didn't just benefit from the system. He helped reproduce it.
He sold the sneakers.
He sold the jewelry.
He sold the image.
He sold the idea that your value could be purchased.
And he's still selling it.
I would bet his garage is filled with luxury cars. I would bet he owns hundreds of pairs of sneakers. I would bet he owns enough jewelry to finance several businesses.
So to describe the condition as though you are merely observing it, rather than having profited from it, completely misses the point.
Then comes the biggest mistake of all.
"We sell."
No, we don't.
We buy.
Those are two completely different positions.
The producer determines the symbols.
The consumer purchases the symbols.
The producer controls the validation.
The consumer chases it.
That means someone else still controls the images, the aspirations, the definitions of success, and ultimately the imagination of the people consuming them.
That isn't economic power.
It's psychological dependency masquerading as economic participation. Now watch how some will react to the photo and never read what I wrote because the cheese which is TI blinds them from the trap.


















