• 1egg4u@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Learning about history is a touch demoralizing when you realize we’ve been fighting this same fight basically since the beginning of civilization and the concept of wealth

    I yearn for a day that wealth hoarding is seen as the detriment to everybody that it is and is abhorred instead of admired. Displays of wealth in a world with so many sufferiny disgusts me… i wish I could bottle and distribute that perspective.

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      2 months ago

      Displays of wealth in a world with so many sufferiny disgusts me

      I was thinking the other day about how a friend once pointed out someone carrying a handbag that sells for $10,000. I’m like… send that person straight to therapy and community service. That’s so much money on something a $100, tops, bag could do.

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        2 months ago

        A Birkin bag is 20,000 and is supposed to just be some simple “carry all” tote that costs basically college tuition and some people have multiple. I dont know how they can justify that to themselves.

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        2 months ago

        When they blow an amount of money that could permanently change your life … on some snobby bottle of wine … that they probably couldn’t differentiate between a $10 bottle of wine if you subjected them to a blind taste test … and then they only drink half of it and throw the rest away.