The new epidemic of our age: Ostentatious emptiness.
Everyone’s playing the same game wear the brand, strike a pose, stretch your legs on a plane seat, write work hard dream big.
A generation desperate to look rich but living on minimum wage peace of mind.
People who can’t accept that they’re worth more than the price of a bag…
People who need a vacation photo to prove their value…
Let’s be honest this is not luxury; it’s vulgarity.
Minimum Wage Luxurists
A new species has emerged: Minimum wage luxurists.
Designer bags bought with credit, holidays paid in installments, status rented by debt.
All the same emptiness, just wearing perfume.
On the inside: Deprivation.
On the outside: The illusion of being different.
Real luxury isn’t bought with credit it’s built with character.
But this era confuses credit limits with freedom.
Most people don’t own the life they show they only own the illusion they sold themselves.
If you feel special inside a luxury store, know this:
True elitism is needing no brand at all.
True luxury is the status you live within your own mind
not in other people’s eyes.
The one thing money can’t buy is dignified simplicity.
For you, luxury might mean sitting at the table everyone sees.
For a conscious mind, luxury is having the right to stay silent at that table.
Real wealth is living without the need for anyone’s approval.
Those who grow through validation, vanish without it.
Luxury is being able to say enough and mean it.
It’s your character, not your clothes, that should make a statement.
It’s living in the width of your mind, not the square meters of your house.
But if you still seek freedom in the size of a logo, you’re living in glamorous slavery.
Plato said it thousands of years ago:
“Those who chase shadows will never see the truth.”
And yet here you are chasing the reflection, not the light.
Because you chose to be watched instead of being real.
One day, every phone will go silent.
Filters will fade. Lights will go out.
And all that will remain is you unfiltered, unbranded, bare.
And if, in that moment, you can look at your own mind without shame
then, and only then, you are truly rich.
Esra Yavuz | MindPower
“The wealth of the mind is the silence of money.”