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If you can afford a USD$3500 headset and live in HK, you are already wealthy and have a large apartment. Avg income here is around $2000/mo.
by bored_itworker 3y ago
If you can afford a USD$3500 headset and live in HK, you are already wealthy and have a large apartment. Avg income here is around $2000/mo.
- tragicfootball 3y agoHongkonger here. Lot of people can spend USD$3500 for a watch, gadget, or computer, AND still live in 200-300sqft apartments in HK. Doesn't make them "wealthy".
- taeric 3y agoI don't know any world where spending that much in gadgets isn't for the wealthy. Yes, there are richer people out there. That is still a lot of money.
- Rufbdbskrufb473 3y agoIt's really not. Growing up, I had plenty of classmates who spent more than that on superficial car modifications while working a minimum wage job and whose family was on food stamps.
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- taeric 3y agoIn one shot? That feels wrong. And is a poverty trap. :(
- throwaway049 3y agoLots of people on modest incomes buy gadgets on credit.
- taeric 3y agoHaving a 3k+ credit limit isn't that common, is it? And I don't know any consideration of the topic that doesn't treat credit cards as a problem/bad idea. Especially at that level.
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- dullcrisp 3y agoIt’s likely the price of one of these will drop faster than land in Hong Kong though.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoMaybe cultural difference issue, but your logic sounds odd to me. Surely with $2000/mo income (which you describe as average for HK) one can afford an occassional one-time purchase of $3500, after some saving (or, although I wouldn't personally do this, with a loan). Or even more than that: my country has a similar average income, and average people spend 20K on a car without a second thought. And no, it's not that the car is needed as opposed to the headset, because the need of going from A to B can be satisfied by a 5K second-hand car, no one actually needs a new one.