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> If you are willing to spend $10 on chocolate, well then you deserve to open yourself up to being hoodwinked by marketing and branding. Disagree. If you get $
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
> If you are willing to spend $10 on chocolate, well then you deserve to open yourself up to being hoodwinked by marketing and branding.
Disagree. If you get $10 worth of enjoyment out of a really good chocolate bar, and you can afford it, then it's perfectly reasonable to do so.
> Not forgetting the Avocado on toast hipster, whose appetite is causing drought and deforestation across the world.
Are you aware that the "avocado toast millennial" thing is nonsense? You've only heard of it because an out-of-touch millionaire claimed that millennials are only poor because they spend all their money on Starbucks and avocado toast, and the mockery he received went viral.
- LargeWu 7y ago> If you get $10 worth of enjoyment out of a really good chocolate bar, and you can afford it, then it's perfectly reasonable to do so. I think the insinuation here is that the purchasers of this chocolate are deriving their enjoyment of the product from the knowledge that they paid $10 for it, or from being able to tell somebody they paid $10 for it, not from the quality of the actual chocolate.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoYeah, absolutely, if you're only buying it for conspicuous consumption, that's silly. I just felt like mothsonasloth implied that it's fundamentally dumb to pay more than a few dollars for a chocolate bar.