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Sure, but rich people are more likely to buy more expensive toilet paper (name brand n-ply), while a lot of less wealthy people by the cheapest off brand toilet
by bko 4y ago
Sure, but rich people are more likely to buy more expensive toilet paper (name brand n-ply), while a lot of less wealthy people by the cheapest off brand toilet paper (Fiesta brand is popular in bodegas)
The convenience store is more convenient though and you're paying a premium for that convenience. It's really about money. You can trade off money for convenience. A middle class person has to pay for the car which they don't use 99% of the time, the gas, insurance, etc. It's not entirely clear that they're getting a better bargain when you factor in everything else.
But it's really about money. The article makes it sound like its about class or privilege as though only some people can fly:
> The social privilege gradient is also a time gradient: if you can afford a plane ticket, you can travel quickly across the country rather than losing days to the Greyhound or a road-trip. But if you're even richer, you can pay for TSA Precheck and cut your airport security time from an hour to minutes. Go further up the privilege gradient and you'll acquire airline status, shaving another hour off the check-in process.
Privilege has nothing to do with buying a plane ticket. Its open to pretty much everyone with money
- nostrademons 4y agoMoney is privilege.
- bko 4y agoNo, it's not. > priv·i·lege - a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group. Note the "available only to a particular person or group". In a free and open society, money is available to any capable person through free and open exchange. If a person loses his money and pay for things, he doesn't keep the car, Costco membership, house and cheap toilet paper. Capiche?
- nostrademons 4y agoEase of making that money is disproportionate across society. That's what makes it "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group". Or are you saying that a Haitian immigrant fresh off a raft has the same opportunities for making money that Jeff Bezos does? Quantity matters. The whole point of the article is that you can avoid various taxes on your time if, say, you can afford to drop $30K to buy a car for cash rather than take the bus, or if you can afford the down payment on a house rather than renting a motel room.
- bko 4y agoI'm guessing you're talking about Jeff bezos and Haitian immigration off the boat with the same amount of money (ie starting from zero)? I guess language barrier would be a blocker. Bezos is probably above average intelligence too. But i don't think it's a sure thing and i think your reasoning is dark. It removes the autonomy of immigrants and makes them out to be just helpless hopeless victims, which is de humanizing
- nostrademons 4y agoNo, I'm not assuming they start with the same amount of money. I'm assuming Bezos starts with $200B or whatever his net worth is now. And that's my point - merely having that money is privilege. If you start Bezos and the Haitian immigrant off at zeros, Bezos may have some other advantages (and here's where intersectionality comes in and we can talk about all the other forms of privilege), but most people would agree that Bezos-the-pauper has nowhere near the same opportunities as Bezos-the-billionaire, and would be significantly closer to the Haitian pauper in likely outcomes.
- harvey9 4y agoSo what's your plan for the incapable, the disabled? Fuck 'em! Capiche?
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoI believe the statement refers to increased access to privilege as wealth increases. This is an obvious fact that has many examples.