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> I do not give a flying fuck about its status value. It doesn’t matter whether you care about its status value. If I bought a Birkin and said, “I don’t care a
by paulcole 2y ago
> I do not give a flying fuck about its status value.
It doesn’t matter whether you care about its status value. If I bought a Birkin and said, “I don’t care about the status value” you’d scoff and think I’m a sucker.
And yeah I guess I am surprised to learn that $5,000 is the cheapest available EUC.
- FpUser 2y agoNot the cheapest but one that has Smart BMS, IP rating, good suspension, big range and big power margin for safety. Otherwise yes, you can buy cheaper one starting I think with as low as $1000.
- paulcole 2y agoOh wow, $4,000 more for the one you bought. Not everybody can afford to drop money on an item like that, especially when there are serviceable but cheaper alternatives. It's almost like you have to have a certain something to buy it...
- Clamchop 2y agoAn Hermes Birkin bag isn't fungible with other bags of equivalent design or quality. That it is that bag by that brand is essential. Most of the price and scarcity isn't for its qualitative or quantitative attributes but rather to maintain the appearance of exclusivity. I doubt paulcole feels that way about their unicycle. Yes, fundamentally, the possession of things of value is a signal of means, but that's mundane. Everything you own or do signals means to some degree, but that's different from signaling being an essential property of those things or activities.