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Of course it's a fallacy. One has to draw a line at some point. To me that line would be a way, way cheaper expense than a big, polluting truck. But it seems th
by exergy 8y ago
Of course it's a fallacy. One has to draw a line at some point. To me that line would be a way, way cheaper expense than a big, polluting truck. But it seems that to you, if I can't own a truck, I must go all the way to living in shanties/favelas and dumpster diving.
- mikeash 8y agoHow do you decide where to draw the line? What’s the rational way to put some pleasures under the “rational” category and others under the “irrational” category?
- Noumenon72 8y agoYou calibrate on what people were satisfied with thirty or a hundred years ago, eliminating modern status-seeking. You ask yourself "Would I be horrified to live like that, or do I just think I'm too good for it?" Like there's no way I am going to live as a boarder with another family, but I can definitely make my own lunch.
- mikeash 8y agoWhy thirty or a hundred? Why not two, or ten thousand?