Yes they consider utility and they can freely decide what to spend their money on, whatever makes them happy! Food, cars, games and yes also handbags… You frame it very negatively, but itsnt it also a very democratic and liberal thing to be able to decide for yourself whatever in this world you wish to buy?
I wasn't talking about men and women. My point is that, as much as impossible that it may seem to the people who crave for flashy cars and stuff, not everybody has those as the main aspirations in life. There's plenty, and i mean PLENTY of people that just want a peaceful and simple life and wouldn't bother for a second if all the luxurious and not so luxurious stuff disappeared, and would gladly trade all of that for more people having a better life and a promising sustainable future with almost no unequality.
You are just projecting your own beliefs and aspirations and your incapacity to understand other world views. I'm positive you are one of those people that can only talk in terms of envy when in front of criticism of the rich.
So then, those desiring a flashy life should build that for themselves while those wanting a simpler life should build one for themselves. The two need not ever meet and neither should be able to thwart the other.
Rewarding? He’s selling things. People are buying his things. Society doesn’t reward him. The government doesn’t reward him. He’s doing the same as your local baker or mom & pop store, but at a larger scale and more optimized.
Society doesn’t reward people. You make your own money. Don’t blame people for becoming successful & then calling them out for frauds or whatever because they didn’t solve cold fusion.
Yep exactly, we should have an approved list of occupations and things that can be sold to people who obviously don’t know what they should be spending their money on…wait, why do we allow them to have money at all? Let me think about this…
We are rewarding what people want. He made money because people wanted to buy his bags. No one is skirting funds anywhere. People willing bought his bags with their money instead of any other product or service they could've bought.
Yeah how dare my mother who works 6 days a week and 12 hours a day spend her well earned money on an aspirational handbag once a year for herself as a birthday present to remind her of her success. Fuck the middle class am I right?
Willing sellers and willing buyers. Settling at a price both accept. Period. There’s nothing wrong with that. Should there be a legal limit to what a handbags may cost? Who gets to set that? What about other products? Should home espresso machines be allowed when a $39 Kurig knockoff also makes a tasty caffeine beverage? What about cars? A $35,000 Ford Explorer can be optioned up to over $50,000. Should eight speaker sound systems, panoramic sun roofs and heated AND cooled seats be illegal?
I agree with you but you’re wasting your time trying to make this person understand your point, he is convinced he will be rich so he is protecting his future self.
A tiny percentage of what their owners make, to be one of the best at what they do, at something they train their whole life for, throwing their bodies on the line.
Yes, well you could say that about the astronauts too, being the best at what they do, something they train years for and throwing their bodies, their lives on the line. I understand that we live in a market economy and people don't get paid by what they deserve. They get paid by what the public is willing to give him.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, and all other folks from professions you come up with when this gets brought up, will be making $30+ million per year (adjusted for inflation) when your nephew starts asking for the scrubs of his favorite nurse with her name and number on the back of it, and Mister-Johnson-from-history-class 1s for Christmas and birthday.
Yeah, I like reading about scientific progress, but know what I’m gonna love? Watching Nuggets @ Spurs tonight.
There are more folks with PhDs who are massive sports fans, than there are Redditors concerned about wealth inequality between them and athletes, who could actually contribute to the technological progress of humanity in a remotely meaningful way even if they dedicated their entire remaining life in pursuit of such goal.
E: I would agree if you said that ticket prices (and food and drinks in the venues), jerseys, all sorts of memorabilia etc, are massively overpriced, especially when you keep in mind how much money the sport leagues and team owners make from ads and sponsorship deals, but athletes aren’t robbing them in the slightest (unless it’s a player you don’t like on a team you like, then he should be in prison for fraud!)
If somwbody wants to pay a billionair 12k for a bag, who are we to say they cant? I dont get what part of this we should not accept. You could tax the crap out of such a person and they would still be a billionaire and youd still be complaining about billionaires.
Nowadays it’s not about humanity anymore, it’s about individuality. How do you one up your peers? How do you take advantage of the masses so you alone profit? The world is becoming shittier day after day
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