It's a worldwide problem, and approximately 5.8% of the U.S. population will experience some type of compulsive buying disorder during their lives. Many people who suffer from shopping addiction also experience a co-occurring mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression.
Having a buying addiction is a big deal because, for many people who may not realize it, there is a huge loss of money and time spent. Instead of doing something fun or working. But for many people it is more important to spend money in shopping malls to look beautiful than to work and get tired of earning that money with hard work and yesterday. as many people are addicted to drugs, so are shopping, shopping malls, etc.
He is saying to not judge a person before knowing them properly. To understand the perpectives of people that face things like discrimination and not to have bad opinions on them.