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I'm sorry for fixating on this a bit, but I'm confused. On the one hand you say you're not comfortable carrying around something that costs as much as "a budget
by dsacco 10y ago
I'm sorry for fixating on this a bit, but I'm confused. On the one hand you say you're not comfortable carrying around something that costs as much as "a budget car", on the other you say you're happy to not have to work an "extra eight hours" to afford the thing.
If you can earn enough to buy a new iPhone outright in eight hours of work, then 1. I think a "budget car" might be just a tad more expensive than $1000, relative to your income and 2. carrying around eight hours of work in a product that you will use every day for two years isn't a leap, is it?
I'm just confused because I'm coming up empty when I imagine the Venn overlap of "people who earn $1000 in 8 hours", "people who are concerned about carrying $1000 on their person", "people who price a budget car at $1000" and "people who derive small enough value from upgrading to the newest device that they'd rather have an extra day's worth of income."
Did I misunderstand you somewhere?
- drcross 10y ago>I think a "budget car" might be just a tad more expensive than $1000, relative to your income. My income is in no way connected to what constitutes a budget car. >carrying around eight hours of work in a product that you will use every day for two years isn't a leap, is it? Yes it is if my current phone already does >90% of what this phone does. You seem to think you have to buy more expensive things as your income increases. This is luxury creep and has disastrous consequences. I have a long term view and don't intend to work for all of my life.