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Or scrunched up tin foil at ~$2 / 100 ft. Look, I love Destin, watch all his stuff recommend it all the time. But I'm never going to buy this product, it's ju

Or scrunched up tin foil at ~$2 / 100 ft. Look, I love Destin, watch all his stuff recommend it all the time. But I'm never going to buy this product, it's just too expensive for what it does compared to the alternatives. And I know he knows that. He's clearly at least 'not stupid'. So something isn't squaring with this.

ben_w 1y ago
> So something isn't squaring with this. Lots of smart people get hooked onto extremely specific solutions that aren't even improvements. I saw it in software development with many things (VIPER and SwiftUI both reduce development velocity compared to MVC and old-school Interface Builder); I've seen it with Musk trying to do tunnels even when roads would be cheaper and safer; there's also (infamously) Juicero; and in the UK in the 80s there was the Sinclair C5. That said, is this really an example of that? Myself, I barely use my electric barbecue, so I don't know the best way to clean things (it's not yet become dirty enough to bother cleaning). But I have seen the brushes he's complaining about, and I have not previously considered using tinfoil, so it's not a completely crazy idea that people might want a better brush.
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  I use an oven cleaner, spray it on, leave it for half an hour or overnight, and stuff just comes off when you wave a cleaning cloth at it. Highly noxious though, probably responsible for insect collapse etc.
BobaFloutist 1y ago
Some people care about how reasonable a price seems even if they can easily afford something, because it's important to them to feel like they're getting a good deal or at least not getting taken advantage of. They're happy to accept some level of inconvenience or discomfort if the savings are big enough, even if they don't particularly need the money Some people care more about getting exactly the right thing, even if the value proposition is weaker. They'll pay significantly more for apparently trivial differences, because they don't want to buy something they're not happy with; they're spending money anyway and why put up with something they don't want if they can afford something they do want? Neither of these people are strictly unreasonable.

ben_w 1y ago

> So something isn't squaring with this. Lots of smart people get hooked onto extremely specific solutions that aren't even improvements. I saw it in software development with many things (VIPER and SwiftUI both reduce development velocity compared to MVC and old-school Interface Builder); I've seen it with Musk trying to do tunnels even when roads would be cheaper and safer; there's also (infamously) Juicero; and in the UK in the 80s there was the Sinclair C5. That said, is this really an example of that? Myself, I barely use my electric barbecue, so I don't know the best way to clean things (it's not yet become dirty enough to bother cleaning). But I have seen the brushes he's complaining about, and I have not previously considered using tinfoil, so it's not a completely crazy idea that people might want a better brush.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago
I use an oven cleaner, spray it on, leave it for half an hour or overnight, and stuff just comes off when you wave a cleaning cloth at it. Highly noxious though, probably responsible for insect collapse etc.

BobaFloutist 1y ago

Some people care about how reasonable a price seems even if they can easily afford something, because it's important to them to feel like they're getting a good deal or at least not getting taken advantage of. They're happy to accept some level of inconvenience or discomfort if the savings are big enough, even if they don't particularly need the money Some people care more about getting exactly the right thing, even if the value proposition is weaker. They'll pay significantly more for apparently trivial differences, because they don't want to buy something they're not happy with; they're spending money anyway and why put up with something they don't want if they can afford something they do want? Neither of these people are strictly unreasonable.