What is one danger to"keeping up with the joneses"?

The correct answer is the following.

“Keeping Up With the Joneses” is a popular phrase in the United States, used when someone tries very hard to”keep up” or maintain ca ertain level of life compared to the status of other persons. The status could be charisma, popularity, money or other possessions.  

It is a very dangerous game because it becomes an obsession to keep on spending money that you do not have, acquiring things that create debt, aspiring to become someone you are not, and eventually an individual cannot keep up with the game and it end up generating conflcits and problems for him/her, her family and other people. Today, social media plays a big role in showing artists, singers, businessman, models or influencers using things or wearing things that are not affordable to many people.  

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