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1000x better? This is buying an interesting life and interesting story from people who have neither but lots of money. We should be ashamed we live in a world
by dclowd9901 11y ago
1000x better? This is buying an interesting life and interesting story from people who have neither but lots of money.
We should be ashamed we live in a world where someone will pay as much for a pair of old jeans as an average salary.
- simoncion 11y agoMeh. People pay a lot for art.
- noonespecial 11y agoWhy? They didn't consume a bunch of resources or anything. They just relinquished their claim on said lots of resources to be the only guy in the world who gets to have a certain bit of dirty old fabric. It sounds like a net win for everyone. Rich guy provides (what ostensibly is) 100's of $k worth of value to society and all he asks in return is dirty old jeans?! Fantastic.
- hn_user2 11y agoExactly. Or if looked at in this specific guys case. Someone is willing to put two kids through college, and all he wants in return is some old jeans.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoIt's even a win for greenhouse gas emissions. To an order of magnitude, each dollar you spend buying consumer products causes 1 kg of CO2 emissions. This obviously causes a lot less (as does most art).