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You can cook your own food, cut your own hair, park your own cars, and so on. Instead, you are paying another human to do these things for you, sometimes waitin
by Broken_Hippo 10y ago
You can cook your own food, cut your own hair, park your own cars, and so on. Instead, you are paying another human to do these things for you, sometimes waiting on you in the process. Most of the things we tip for we can go without.
How are these not luxury services?
- golergka 10y agoMost of the things you described are cheaper to pay to a specialist to so than the cost of education and time to perform yourself. Cooking your own food and cutting your own hair with the same quality is the real luxury. Never driven a car so don't know anything about that.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoCooking is one of those things that you get better with practice, and it doesn't need to be expensive to get fairly high quality. You just might not meet McDonald's pricing. That time thing you are speaking of? Well, that's a luxury if you aren't doing it yourself (or a member of your family), and can be overcome by habit. Poor folks do it all the time. Haircut? Simple style, doesn't actually take much time or energy and the tools cost about the same as a cheap haircut. The car is slightly better put another way, then: Taking a taxi instead of readily available mass transit. The first is simpler and easier and often quicker, the second cheaper but takes more work and walking on your behalf.