It’s a class-based metaphor that judges how successful you are when compared to an idealistic version of someone who is successful by class. The Jones’s are portrayed metaphorically as this rich, up-to-date, always on top of things, always getting things first and other things. If you don’t meet those kind of qualifications, then you’re not keeping up with the Jones’s.
It’s about community peer pressured consumerism, they are placeholder neighbours and its as old as humanity.
Pretty old. You don’t, it’s a folly to compare yourself to other people, there’s countless other sayings, proverbs, sutras, koans, etc. saying so, be happy with who you are and what you have, life is not a competition despite all their efforts to make it one.
Jesus mate i mean this in all seriousness that should be in the constitution or bible or something. No sarcasm in that. But it really probably wakes people up to view it from that stand point. Good one. Much love.
There are most definitely Bible passages about this sort of thing.
There’s one of the Ten Commandments about it.
Keeping up with the Canaanites
Comparison is the thief of joy
That’s the 10th commandment.
