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> I'm not a slave to my $40 dollars in silverware and I'm happy every time I used it that I'm not wondering if it was some rat's and cockroaches play thing for

> I'm not a slave to my $40 dollars in silverware and I'm happy every time I used it that I'm not wondering if it was some rat's and cockroaches play thing for 20 years before someone found it behind a refrigerator while cleaning a house and threw it in the good will bin. I assure you that after a good wash there's no permanent damage a roach can possibly do to silverware. I'm not about to throw around the word slave in regard to silverware or consumerism, but you've fallen for the "used is unclean" myth that's partially contributed to the absurd amount of waste in the world.

anm89 4y ago
Sure. I just don't care. I've got $40 and that's my preference.
- micromacrofoot 4y ago
  Yes, we all make these decisions in one way or another... but this blog post is in a response to another post that extols the virtues of always seeking "the best" to the point of claiming that everything he owns is "the best." If you value silverware of a specific quality that's fine, but insisting that everything you own be the best feels like it exists somewhere between banal and foolish. Seeking out the extremes on either end feels like navel-gazing, I agree... and I think finding a middle-ground was the purpose of the author's counter-examples.
  - anm89 4y ago
    He is explicitly advocating for the worst. That's the literal title. If you made a spectrum of options, he's advocating to go as extreme on that spectrum as you can. According to him, anything beyond the good will used bin is the wrong choice. He's advocating for an extreme.
    - micromacrofoot 4y ago
      Yeah I can see that, I guess I wasn't taking it as literally. > But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other. My take away from the conclusion was "care less about stuff" and I interpreted the counter-examples as more demonstration of why "the best" doesn't always literally mean "the best" and that sometimes "the worst" ends up better in a different way.

anm89 4y ago

Sure. I just don't care. I've got $40 and that's my preference.

micromacrofoot 4y ago
Yes, we all make these decisions in one way or another... but this blog post is in a response to another post that extols the virtues of always seeking "the best" to the point of claiming that everything he owns is "the best." If you value silverware of a specific quality that's fine, but insisting that everything you own be the best feels like it exists somewhere between banal and foolish. Seeking out the extremes on either end feels like navel-gazing, I agree... and I think finding a middle-ground was the purpose of the author's counter-examples.
- anm89 4y ago
  He is explicitly advocating for the worst. That's the literal title. If you made a spectrum of options, he's advocating to go as extreme on that spectrum as you can. According to him, anything beyond the good will used bin is the wrong choice. He's advocating for an extreme.
  - micromacrofoot 4y ago
    Yeah I can see that, I guess I wasn't taking it as literally. > But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other. My take away from the conclusion was "care less about stuff" and I interpreted the counter-examples as more demonstration of why "the best" doesn't always literally mean "the best" and that sometimes "the worst" ends up better in a different way.