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At $500, even for someone on minimum wage it's not even 1 month wage after taxes. You have to get a pretty fancy one before it starts getting expensive. This b
by dionidium 12y ago
At $500, even for someone on minimum wage it's not even 1 month wage after taxes. You have to get a pretty fancy one before it starts getting expensive.
This betrays a misunderstanding of how disposable income works. For monthly wages below some n (where is n is determined by the cost of living in your city), a person's disposable income is effectively $0. In other words, someone making $1200/month doesn't have twice as much disposable income as somebody making $0/month. They both have zero disposable income.
- ebbv 12y agoDude. I'm not saying they have disposable income. We were just comparing the price vs. average person's monthly income. C'mon. Reading comprehension.
- dionidium 12y agoWhat could "before it starts getting expensive" possibly mean other than how I interpreted it?
- ebbv 12y agoFor a watch, $500 is not that expensive. $10,000 definitely is. Somewhere in-between there probably is too. There's a lot of not expensive things that people on minimum wage can't afford because it's not a living wage.