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Kids will always find a reason to bully others. Conspicuous consumption is not a solution to teaching kids about respect. Corporate marketers are eager to exploit insecurity by presenting their product as the solution to your problems, or even create a problem to create demand for their “solution.”

> If you don't get your teenager an iPhone in the US then your kid is going to face some added difficulties.

FWIW, I personally don't think this ranks as something today's kids worry about. My sample size is just two, but both are on a bunch of text chains with peers. All chains are a mix of Android and iOS users, and they tell me that nobody cares.

>If you don't get your teenager an iPhone in the US then your kid is going to face some added difficulties.

If you don't get your teenager Nikes/Birkenstocks then your kid is going to face some added difficulties. Kids will bully kids for not having iPhones regardless; blue texts wont change that.