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It makes you wonder why they valued this stuff so much in the first place.

• me_me_me 6y ago
  It belonged to great-great-aunt Thelma, what is there more to explain!
• 082349872349872 6y ago
  Aristippus, at least, wasn't into roll top desks: "children ought to be provided with property and resources of a kind that could swim with them even out of a shipwreck." https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/46/Swetz_2012_Math_Treasures/Linda-Hall-Lib/799001.png https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_librar...
  • RandomBacon 6y ago
    Cryptocurrency to the rescue! (sarcasm... kind of) I've always loved the idea of being nimble, but I equally love the idea of having a family estate. Hopefully my future children will be diversified with both options.
• kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
  The first wave of beneficiaries of the industrial revolution were able to display status with mass produced "luxury" goods that were barely affordable and needed to be reserved from every day use. These attitudes carried on through their children and grandchildren.
  • tonyedgecombe 6y ago
    It's not even that long ago, when my wife and I bought a house it took a couple of years before we had furnished it. My son filled his flat in a day at Ikea. It's less valuable to people because it is so easily available.
    • throwaway0a5e 6y ago
      And that's a good thing. Compare how the poors lived in 1950-1970 vs today. How many project apartments or leaky rural shacks you think you'd have to combine to get one household worth of (fully functional) furniture and appliances? Cheap furniture, window A/C units that cost about a day's labor. Not that they don't have problems but the cost decreases that have enabled the middle to treat things as disposable has very much enabled the less fortunate to greatly increase their standard of living.