A Lifestyle Subscription is a bundled retail service that consists of regular deliveries of food, clothing, housewares and electronics curated according to a few broad customer choices. It is a practice common among affluent societies with Conformist Cultures.

Origins

Retail giant Everest originated the service, identifying a market desire for fewer choices and less effort in clothing dumb children. The original program, Mount Kids, charged a subscription fee and delivered packages of clothing every six months. The parent and/or child could select a "playlist" of clothing according to the desired social persona. They fit into relatively nuanced archetypes, but still far fewer than there are in real life. The benefit was saving the parent precious time and mental effort upgrading clothing for a kid who'd outgrow them in a year anyway.

Spread

TODO: Spread to adult audiences, basically when original customers reach adulthood

Use in Social Engineering

Parents engineer their children in all cultural contexts, but this was an especially monoculture way of doing it. It wasn't long before Everest realized they were practically dictating the silly cliques and subcultures of childhood. Further, social science research started to show that the choice of playlist and individual algorithmic curation interplayed powerfully with their age, race & socioeconomic status to have major effects on the outcomes of those childrens' lives later. By defining their clothing, it defined their social niche, and gave major dis/advantages to how their psyche developed. This led to a near-ubiquity of this service among societies with a high interest in Social Engineering.