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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
What are some ways in which expensive products can be worse than cheaper ones? Examples that come to my mind: * Expensive clothes can be much less convenient to clean * In expensive hotel rooms it's often harder to figure out how to turn off all the lights * Expensive restaurants often have less choice in menus
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* but expensive clothes can (not always) feel better because of better fabrics * but are cleaner, smell better, offer more services, better food * but may be the result of an expert making the choice for you. Changing specs may result in increased cost but may come with other improvements.
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aerique
@aerique.eth
I'd hope a more expensive restaurant has better quality ingredients and a nice atmosphere. Menu choice should be secondary here. Unless the restaurant is so expensive you're paying for the "experience". (On a different note: I had a hard time choosing between using apostrophes or quotes around "experience".)
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@mc10
Expensive sunglasses break more easily than cheap ones. Tell me I'm wrong 😎
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Hsiao-Wei Wang
@hww
Expensive movie productions may tend to less risky experiments so they can at least break even. It may result in less creative, repeated factory-produced popcorn movies.
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@vgr
Expensive cities… pay more for decidedly worse lifestyle for a few narrow upsides. Many hang on long after the upside potential is gone.
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@tim
* expensive watches stall if you don't wear them for N days * expensive cars tend to break down more frequently * expensive (old) wine more likely to have gone bad
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@dcposch.eth
a lot of veblen goods are fragile. it's part of the flex, like having the latest iphone with no case
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Jonny Mack
@nonlinear.eth
expensive mechanical watches have high maintenance costs relative to their quartz counterparts. eg servicing a rolex is ~15x the cost of a casio g shock despite having far fewer ‘complications’ (features)
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@neuroswish
expensive appliances (coffee makers, toasters, etc) often require more maintenance and have feature overkill, and are less reliable than simple cheap ones most of the time
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Nicholas Charriere
@pushix
Sometimes its better to go to a concert in the GA area than in far away, more expensive and less fun seats.
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@shazow.eth
* Using 5+ different streaming platforms vs pirating content * Using 5+ different game launchers vs pirating games * a lot of OSS software vs paid proprietary software * Small markets that sell local produce are often cheaper than large supermarkets that sell inferior imported produce
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@killjoy
Expensive bike components are more fragile.
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@betashop.eth
I cook breakfast every morning with a mauviel chef-grade brass pan (which are fantastic for everything except this use case)... and every morning my hubby says to me: can I please buy you a non-stick pan for making eggs, the brass pan is a pain in the 🍑 to clean
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@futureartist
Not a product, but my free college CS education in Greece was immensely better than what the $$$ equivalent in US would have been
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Product by “build to be sold” companies that are semiotically aligned with what “valuable” looks like
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@jayce
side thought: I often see cars, houses, etc. that I absolutely despise but would be delighted to receive for free even if the caveat was that I have to keep it for ten years before selling.
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CAROLYN: This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. This is not just a couch. LESTER: It's just a couch! This isn't life! This is just stuffIt's just a couch! This isn't life! This is just stuff, and it's become more important to you than living. https://youtube.com/watch?v=OKSsWJIW_J0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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@macbudkowski
Expensive watches make you a much bigger target for criminals
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@jesse
high-end cars more difficult to fix due to limited/proprietary supply chain/expertise
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