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0 pointsYetanfou11y ago0 comments

You don't have children, do you?

Also, you wear your clothes at least 14 hours a day. That does not imply you need to buy the most expensive brands you can find, just that they need to fit their purpose. You can pay more than $1000 for an iPhone with 128 GB of storage, true. You can also buy an expandable device, add a 128GB (or bigger - up to 1 TB is available) and end up paying half that price (or less).

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sosuke11y ago· 2 in thread

You do wear clothes everyday, but hopefully not the same ones everyday. If I only had one set of clothes to wear for 2 years you better believe I'll be willing to spend over $1000 for it.

The analogy just doesn't work, over a 2 year period the difference between $500 and $1000 isn't much. If in the US, the cost is usually hidden in the monthly cost. So the visible cost is $200, and even the free phones over same time period isn't much of a difference in price.

On the subject of spending, put money into your bed, you spend a lot of time there, well worth a few thousand.

YetanfouOP11y ago

Ah, but you forgot one of the 'special' aspects of that $1000 device: it comes with a lock to which you don't hold the key. Taking the clothes comparison further, you can only wash these clothes at one specific laundry. The manufacturer decides which clothes you get to wear on which day and which occasion. They also decide on what style of clothes you wear. Should you not like that style, tough luck. When they launch the 'new style', the laundry won't accept your old clothes anymore - good luck walking around in dirty clothes.

Apropos beds: I built mine, about 15 years ago. It cost me all of $30 in wood and sundry.

To summarise, throwing money at a problem is usually not the best solution. Throwing as much money at a problem as someone will take is hardly ever the best solution.

sosuke11y ago

Bed/mattress, I mean the big soft thing not the frame sorry.

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