What Expensive Version Did You Try and Now You Never Wanted to Go Back to the Cheap Thing?

  • malamignasanmig@group.lt
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    1 year ago

    shoes. though not technically expensive because i buy them used (they are expensive when bought new).
    cheap shoes will hurt your feet, are easily damaged, and not repairable. the cheapest shoes i had lasted 2 weeks. leather ones can last years with proper care and resole.

    bamboo socks. they have better odor resistance than cotton ones.

    getting sick of my cheap earphones, on the hunt for a php500-1000 corded earphone.

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      1 year ago

      Have you heard of Sam Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory? Sam Vimes is a protagonist in many of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

      The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.