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Given how correlated these trends are, I am not sure what is changing is the desire for any particular item, but the actual interpretation of the word "necessit
by frossie 18y ago
Given how correlated these trends are, I am not sure what is changing is the desire for any particular item, but the actual interpretation of the word "necessity". I suspect what is happening is that when financial security is low, necessity is applied as a term close to its actual definition, whereas in times of financial plenty it starts wandering up the scale towards "want".
That said, I boggle at the clothes dryer rank.
- asciilifeform 18y ago> I boggle at the clothes dryer rank Some American towns actually forbid residents from hanging clotheslines.
- ams6110 18y agoTrue, but it's usually a neighborhood association rule, not something that applies to a whole town.
- lucumo 18y agoBut you can hang them inside. We don't have a clothes dryer and the weather here is generally wetter than the clothes are. We just have two drying racks. Works perfectly for a two-person house hold. I don't think it's hard to scale up for more persons.