12 Signs Your Relationship With Luxury Is Toxic

November 22, 2021

 

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I recently read a piece on the Huffington Post about how luxury brands are toxic to their consumers. It was written by a woman who had been in a relationship with one of those brands and was finally ready to leave him. She had even made up an excuse to move to another state to live with a very wealthy friend. The article was a lot to digest for me, but I was intrigued by the points that were raised.

I’ve heard it said that luxury brands use their “luxury” to show off to others.


That they feel a need to put themselves on display and are quick to judge those who don’t fit into their own standards. That they like to be the center of attention and have a need to be noticed. These brands also use their “luxury” to push their clients to be less ethical.


Luxury brands, especially those that work with luxury brands, are not always the most ethical individuals in the industry. In fact, luxury brands often do a terrible job at their own ethical practices, particularly when dealing with consumers. In fact, one of the key pieces of evidence that helps us prove that luxury brands are unethical is when a luxury brand that works with luxury brands does something unethical, like giving a client a gift (or even taking a gift).


This is a hard one. I don’t think you can prove that a luxury brand is unethical simply on the basis of one example.


It just doesn’t happen that often. Instead, I think what it comes down to is that luxury brands are trying to make a name for themselves by being the most luxurious company in the world, but in practice they are often not very ethical.


This is where things become tricky. Some luxury brands like to go for the “the worst you can do” game, and this is one of the most common ways they try to win a customer over. Luxury brands love to say, “Look, we’re not like some of the other people on the other side of the world. We’re not going to lie and say we’re ethical because we’re not.


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This is the most common way a luxury brand tries to convince you they are ethical.


After all, if the most ethical company in the world is a luxury brand then a luxury brand must be a good company. But the more ethical they claim, the more they seem to lie. While luxury brands may claim to be ethical, they are usually not.


So what are the signs that your relationship with luxury is toxic? First, they always say they are about ethics. That just means that they have been scammed by their friends, relatives, or associates. So if they are lying to you, that is saying that they have been scammed. And if they are saying that they are not about ethics, they are not really telling the truth.


The problem is that it is easier to tell the truth than it is to tell the truth.


Luxury brands are very effective at getting consumers to buy things they have never really needed or wanted in the first place. And they also get consumers to buy things that may make a person feel worse or worse about themselves. So if they are not being honest about their ethics, you cannot trust them as an ethical brand.

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