Inequality within a social group can be physically and mentally harmful. Having fewer financial resources will strain an individual's ability to provide and obtain reasonable resources, such as quality food, increasing malnutrition or hunger. Not having the ability to provide for your family, for example, can have serious mental repercussions and feelings of hopelessness, anger, cohesion and worthlessness. Individuals may question their existence and consider suicide. America has a bigger and better mentality, a consuming nation, a mentality of having and being better than others. An idiom that perfectly describes this mentality is keeping up with the Joneses; It is “a comparison with one's neighbor as a point of reference for social caste or the accumulation of material goods. It is perceived as a demonstration of socioeconomic or cultural inferiority" ("dictionary,"