Something that I think would genuinely surprise people is the number of on-paper tech billionaires — yes, billionaires — who have roommates These people genuinely do not handle wealth the way people expect. There’s only so much you can spend on cold showers & electric bikes
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The really absurd thing are these “one of a kind” status goods inflated to hell — but if you’re Indiana Jones-ing it with the default take “that priceless artifact belongs in a museum, where schoolchildren can be forced to stare at it!” congrats, you’re the pricing mechanism
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The flipside of this is that diminishing marginal utility is an argument for greater taxation on the wealthy.
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True if hedonistic consumption were the only way to allocate wealth but no
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Reminds me of this passage about the midwestern couple who figured out how to hack the lottery https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/ …pic.twitter.com/I0y6TMmAPr
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Yachts don’t look nearly so perverse if one earns ones livelihood building, equipping, or crewing them.
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