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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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@mc10
Expensive sunglasses break more easily than cheap ones. Tell me I'm wrong 😎
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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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@vrypan.eth
* 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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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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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@farcasteradmin.eth
hehe btc is more expensive than eth 👀 i'll see myself out
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@dberg
Expensive dog breeds can have health issues that mutts don’t.
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@benersing
Greater risk of fraud/forgery
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@jithinraj.eth
* Sports cars - mostly inconvenient to use when not in a sporty mood * Leather items - mostly expensive than vegan options, guilt inducing and literally costs a life.
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@payton
Purchasing an expensive product is also a larger investment in the company which means a higher risk for yourself. If I purchase an electronic from a niche luxury brand and they go out of business, repairs just got much more complicated. Boosted Board comes to mind with this example.
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@constant
“Professional” products in many categories are more expensive yet have less intuitive ui i.e. video cameras, compositing or special fx software, cnc machines. Of course they have positives as well though.
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@yassinelanda.eth
Utility is a log function of price. Usually there is a level ($100-$160 for example for shoes) where you get same utility or worse from everything. Worse usually comes from own limitations like buying a $10,000 audio system while having suboptimal hearing.
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@fishbiscuit
Knew a guy who had a rolls royce in Singapore. It was so big that he could only park in 3 places comfortably in the country
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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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