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How 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
by mikeash 8y ago
How 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?