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> so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day? I sure do, because I prefer the quality control and availabili

> so you spend also excessive amount of money on water because you drink it several times a day? I sure do, because I prefer the quality control and availability of municipally-supplied mains rather than sinking a well in my back yard. Your point about conspicuous consumption is pretty unfocused. Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarian tendencies?

blubb-fish 9y ago
> municipally-supplied mains I don't know where you live but here in Germany this water source is pretty cheap while of high quality. So this would rather be an example of pragmatic spending behaviour. A $1000 smartphone would rather correspond to vanilla-flavored water filtered in a space ship using a high-tech-crystal-structure ... > Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarians tendencies? Exactly - you are identifying yourself with those possessions. In my experience people with such materialist life philosophy are tedious and annoying.
- Retric 9y ago
  Your water example is ill conceived because bottled water often considered a reasonable purchase in bulk yet it is also a vastly larger price increase vs just a 5x on a phone. Bottled water is basically the same thing just in slightly more convenient form yet it's ~1000x as expensive. Because it's not the relative price that's important it's the price relative to the benifit.
ghaff 9y ago
Bad example. People usually drill wells because there isn't a municipal source available. Municipal water is not a luxury good that you pay a premium for. Indeed, wells are likely to end up higher cost because of drilling, failures, etc. Better example is drinking bottled water rather than tap water. Which many people do but is IMO a total waste of money. To say nothing of environmentally wasteful.
- falsedan 9y ago
  > Bad example I work with the material I get given.

blubb-fish 9y ago

> municipally-supplied mains I don't know where you live but here in Germany this water source is pretty cheap while of high quality. So this would rather be an example of pragmatic spending behaviour. A $1000 smartphone would rather correspond to vanilla-flavored water filtered in a space ship using a high-tech-crystal-structure ... > Should everyone use the same laptop, do the same job, be paid the same rate, lest be accused of propertarians tendencies? Exactly - you are identifying yourself with those possessions. In my experience people with such materialist life philosophy are tedious and annoying.

Retric 9y ago
Your water example is ill conceived because bottled water often considered a reasonable purchase in bulk yet it is also a vastly larger price increase vs just a 5x on a phone. Bottled water is basically the same thing just in slightly more convenient form yet it's ~1000x as expensive. Because it's not the relative price that's important it's the price relative to the benifit.

ghaff 9y ago

Bad example. People usually drill wells because there isn't a municipal source available. Municipal water is not a luxury good that you pay a premium for. Indeed, wells are likely to end up higher cost because of drilling, failures, etc. Better example is drinking bottled water rather than tap water. Which many people do but is IMO a total waste of money. To say nothing of environmentally wasteful.

falsedan 9y ago
> Bad example I work with the material I get given.