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> 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
by 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.