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The goal is to maximize your happiness. Putting yourself into a precarious and stressful financial situation because of memes is irrational. Buying a sleeping p
by zeroCalories 2y ago
The goal is to maximize your happiness. Putting yourself into a precarious and stressful financial situation because of memes is irrational. Buying a sleeping pod might be rational for some, not for others. Those aren't cultural though, they're personal.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI dont really understand the distinction you are drawing between cultural and personal. Personal opinions are shaped by culture and memes.
- zeroCalories 2y agoYour personal preferences are influenced by culture, but they include your material realities. If you're making decisions about your finances/housing without considering your material reality, you've been meme'd into a decision. A lot of people have been influenced into believing that being an owner is always better than being a renter, so they make stupid decisions.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoIm not going to argue against the idea that stupid decisions are stupid or that some people make them. My point is rather that preferences, including the material reality that you seek, are almost entirely cultural. There is no culture vs reality, but rather some cultural values vs other cultural values
- zeroCalories 2y agoYou're entirely missing the point. It doesn't matter if wanting to buy or live in a pod is cultural. What matters is how happy you are at the end.