This is some sort of sick joke, right?

innerSpaceman · 03-15-2006, 10:35 PM

I think a certain amount of wastefulness is quasi-sinful.

It's up to each of us to determine what that amount is, where that balance point tips.

It's all relative. One person's extravagance is another's skimpthriftiness. And there's nothing inherently "wrong" with extravagance. It's up to our own individual value systems to determine where pleasureable extravagance ends and wasteful destructiveness begins.

For me personally, something is wasteful if it costs enough to provide a poor person with a significant, survivalist financial boost while also being out of a decent price-to-value ratio on the common market (which is to say, the market of common sense). If I were deleriously rich, I'd like to pick out a $10,000 suit or a $250,000 car and - just before plunking down the cash - cancel the deal and instead give the money to the first homeless family I could find.

I find the Disney Vintage Crap line to be out of the common sense market. Some folks may have no qualms about paying $130 for a thermal T at World of Disney, but I'd much rather take a visiting Boise family out to lunch.

03-15-2006, 10:35 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	I think a certain amount of wastefulness is quasi-sinful. It's up to each of us to determine what that amount is, where that balance point tips. It's all relative. One person's extravagance is another's skimpthriftiness. And there's nothing inherently "wrong" with extravagance. It's up to our own individual value systems to determine where pleasureable extravagance ends and wasteful destructiveness begins. For me personally, something is wasteful if it costs enough to provide a poor person with a significant, survivalist financial boost while also being out of a decent price-to-value ratio on the common market (which is to say, the market of common sense). If I were deleriously rich, I'd like to pick out a $10,000 suit or a $250,000 car and - just before plunking down the cash - cancel the deal and instead give the money to the first homeless family I could find. I find the Disney Vintage Crap line to be out of the common sense market. Some folks may have no qualms about paying $130 for a thermal T at World of Disney, but I'd much rather take a visiting Boise family out to lunch.
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