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Which Products Make You Feel Insecure About Things You Didn't Know You Should Worry About?

Which Products Make You Feel Insecure About Things You Didn't Know You Should Worry About?

It’s a tried-and-true trick of advertisers to sell you a product by making you feel like you’d be somehow less pretty, manly, or intelligent if you don’t buy it. And then there’s what we like to call “insecurity innovation,” when companies introduce you to new ways to feel bad about how you look, mow much you earn or what your armpits look like. [More]