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> 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 a
by 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 agoYour 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.