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That’s the point of the article. You don’t need it. The soup is an excuse to buy the status symbol.
by lincolnq 7y ago
That’s the point of the article. You don’t need it. The soup is an excuse to buy the status symbol.
- fennecfoxen 7y agoOr sometimes, the status symbol is to guilt you into making soup regularly, so your purchase seems like it was not a waste. (Weaponizing the sunk-cost fallacy, as it were.)
- vwcx 7y agoI’ve noticed amongst my peers in their 30’s that the action of trying new things is intrinsically linked with buying new things. Maybe it’s a product of being raised in 1980s USA, but it isn’t enough to just try to put new soup ingredients in the pot you have. You must buy something that ‘sparks joy’ or ‘inspires’ the action. Value isn’t derived from the practice of something new unless accompanied by the dopamine bump of status symbol acquisition (and perhaps peer reaction to display of such symbol). Want to start exercising? Gotta buy new $140 Lululemon tights to help inspire the action, because willpower isn’t enough.