Of course its worse, a million cool images of thugs cannot perpetuate as much violence than the fabricated need for Rolex watches and diamond chains to an audience that, for the most part, do not have the regular means to access either. It is at the root of, and I am not shy about using this word, the anti-capitalist rejection of private accumulation to deplore any kind of society that tells those without any significant ownership of anything that to be fully human, they must consume like a Rockafeller.

Edit: and by materialism let us not be confused with the materialism that I do endorse. Ie, dialiectical and historical materialism. The tenet that all the exists is physical in nature and that ideas are products of our interactions with the material world.