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As income inequality increases, relative percentage comparisons like this become more infuriating than comforting. The more money you have, the dumber you can
by MrLeap 9y ago
As income inequality increases, relative percentage comparisons like this become more infuriating than comforting.
The more money you have, the dumber you can be with it and still be guaranteed survival. At a certain level of poverty, you have to operate at peak financial efficiency to live a mean lifespan.
50,000$ properly spent could change the course of human history. It could supply the nearby treatment center for children with behavioral/emotional problems for years!
I could buy a few mig welders, some angle grinders, associated PPE, several hundred pounds of scrap metal, and still have enough left over to pay two unemployed people in rural Missouri to make tiny metal sculptures for model towns for 6-12 months.
The above is my goofballs, no thought business plan for 50k. I'm not even trying and the ROI on that hairbrained stupid plan is better than atleast 10 different decisions I've seen made over 50k.
I'm not even being creative or thoughtful. For someone like me to see someone be told "We don't need this." and them respond "eh fuck it, it's just 50k" is...
It's astounding. It's mind altering. It's the name brand bread vs. human lives metaphor in your face and on fire.
So yeah there is a difference.
- tomcam 9y ago>pay two unemployed people in rural Missouri to make tiny metal sculptures for model towns for 6-12 months. Wait... what?
- Hextinium 9y agoI have very often thought what would happen if I was to suddenly come into a substantial amount of wealth and this is what I would do with a no holds barred method of paying skilled people to do cool things that they do not have the money to do otherwise. There are incredibly talented people that if given 20k to make their Magnus opus they would make the most breathtaking and increadible stuff imagined.
- brokenmachine 9y agoThe trouble is finding those people. Most people I meet are literally stereotypical consumers and couldn't come up with a unique idea to save themselves.
- jjeaff 9y agoYou act like spending $50k on something you don't need is the equivalent of lighting the cash on fire. That money goes back into the economy. It provides jobs, it increases money velocity. For the economy as a whole, it's really good that the wealthy or large companies aren't super frugal with their money. After all, someone has a business employing people to make custom leather interiors for private jets, when the standard interior (or first class commercial) will do just fine.