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"I buy more $10,000 cardigans than you buy Hanes undershirts" is kinda the definition of bragging. What a weird ass corner of the internet where it's just assu
by alistairSH 1y ago
"I buy more $10,000 cardigans than you buy Hanes undershirts" is kinda the definition of bragging. What a weird ass corner of the internet where it's just assumed everybody earns $millions. Like, lol, no outside SV, London, and NYC, that's truly exceptional. Like, the average CEO in the US doesn't even clear $1 million (according to Google's AI search results).
- RandomBacon 1y ago> "I buy more $10,000 cardigans than you buy Hanes undershirts" is kinda the definition of bragging. Except that's not what they wrote / how they framed it. Perhaps that's just how you perceived it. I think that speaks more about you, than it does about them.
- tweetle_beetle 1y agoYou can construct a philosophical argument that value is all relative without having to casually drop anecdata demonstrating that you personally spend many hundreds of times more on an everyday object than is typical without consideration. Simmel managed it ok. [1] [1] https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Simmel/Simmel_1900.html https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Simmel/Simmel_1900.html