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I’m not a fan of this. To me, there’s very little point to life besides buying things. It passes the time and sometimes makes me happy-ish. I mean why else do
by paulcole 6y ago
I’m not a fan of this. To me, there’s very little point to life besides buying things. It passes the time and sometimes makes me happy-ish.
I mean why else do I work and make money? Ultimately my answer is to spend it on things. I hate traveling so the idea of buying “experiences” has never appealed to me.
Environmental benefits don’t matter to me either. I have never driven a car, don’t fly, eat a plant-based diet, live in a tiny apartment, and will never have kids. My impact is low enough as it is.
- nine_k 6y agoHave you tried having a partner? Children? Works like a charm for me. But the really rich can't get by so easily, so some of them practice charitable giving of various sorts, the ultimate anti-buying experience.
- fred_is_fred 6y agoIf you like to buy stuff and think giving things away is a bad idea isn't your tiny apartment completely full?
- bombcar 6y agoYeah, it sounds like something like this would be perfect? The excitement of the hunt and fresh box opening and then days or months later give it away and begin the hunt anew.
- icebraining 6y agoMaybe he sells them instead of giving them away?
- ericd 6y agoThe purpose of this is to help people meet their neighbors, do nice things for each other, and build local community more than it is to reduce consumerism (though that can be a nice side effect).
- joshspankit 6y agoYour comment is puzzling to me. Is it sarcasm or how you really think? You seen to have solid logic centres and a steady income. You’ve also put thought in to your impact on the planet as a whole. But the part that confuses me is that it seems you’ve not questioned the “work for money, spend money” script. Billions of people alive today continue to work for things besides money, and optimize for all sorts of goals that are rewarding to them: positive impacts on the world that are magnitudes larger than they could do alone, the happiness of loved ones, refinement of technologies that people can use to help themselves, self-knowledge, and so-on. There are so many different ways to live that I can fill my brain with them and still have no view of the end of the list.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago> I hate traveling so the idea of buying “experiences” has never appealed to me. That resonates; I find "buying experiences" philosophy to be a scam - a thinly veiled attempt to extract recurring revenue from people. > I have never driven a car, don’t fly, eat a plant-based diet, live in a tiny apartment, and will never have kids. My impact is low enough as it is. Could be lower. That stuff you spend your money on, it has a lot of embodied energy in it. Shame to have it manufactured when you could reuse it from someone who doesn't need it anymore. Shame to throw it away if someone else could make use of it. Out of ways to be more environmentally friendly, this is one of the most low-effort, high-impact ones.
- at_a_remove 6y agoIt could always be lower. The Jains are a good example of where that thought process goes. He's one of the lowest quintiles of environmental impact, any further focus is just nitpicking.
- tartoran 6y ago> That resonates; I find "buying experiences" philosophy to be a scam - a thinly veiled attempt to extract recurring revenue from people. It depends how you look at it but do guess you do spend some time going somewhere on vacation. When I go camping or hiking I sort of still consider it an experienece to be bought and even if it is close to little it nevertheless costs something to travel, the cost of time off, etc.
- PascLeRasc 6y agoMaybe look into buying a few hours of therapy.