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That he doesn't actually seem to get by with less is people's problem. He's essentially just renting everything, very inefficiently at that. It's ridiculous to
by Avshalom 15y ago
That he doesn't actually seem to get by with less is people's problem. He's essentially just renting everything, very inefficiently at that.
It's ridiculous to applaud the idea -of buying coffee at a restaurant every day instead of owning a coffee maker- as "doing with less"
- mechanical_fish 15y agoNot ridiculous at all, in context. It's all about marginal costs. If owning something would require you to rent a room that you might otherwise not have to rent, its marginal cost could be hundreds of dollars per month. There are portable coffeemakers for backpackers, but there's no such thing as lightweight portable coffee beans, and buying coffee beans in one-cup units on an as-needed basis is pretty expensive, in time if nothing else. As for whether traveling constantly and renting all your stuff is "inefficient": Well, sure. But to be alive is to be inefficient. Dead people are maximally efficient. But they also aren't having any fun. There's no prize for having lots of leftover money when you're dead. As they say, you can't take it with you.