minimalistic non materialistic life

I think it's like falsely set up. My tendency is to be hardcore non-materialistic.

I've learned that it's also dumb to not spend money just to not do it.

I mean sure, many things in live have an expensive version that isn't worth it compared to the cheap version, but sometimes the expensive version is worth it.

I have shitty garden chair and an OK vacuum cleaner I both got for free. (My country is rich, so people often leave nice stuff in the street for people to pick up because they upgraded their stuff.)

My friend has super expensive versions of both.

The garden chair is to me as good as his garden chair, you can sit nicely in both.

But his vacuum cleaner is a robot that drives around itself and vacuums, which objectively makes it better than mine as I have to spend time vacuuming and he doesn't.

@Raspberry_yoghurt said in #11:
> I think it's like falsely set up. My tendency is to be hardcore non-materialistic.
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> I've learned that it's also dumb to not spend money just to not do it.
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> I mean sure, many things in live have an expensive version that isn't worth it compared to the cheap version, but sometimes the expensive version is worth it.
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> I have shitty garden chair and an OK vacuum cleaner I both got for free. (My country is rich, so people often leave nice stuff in the street for people to pick up because they upgraded their stuff.)
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> My friend has super expensive versions of both.
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> The garden chair is to me as good as his garden chair, you can sit nicely in both.
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> But his vacuum cleaner is a robot that drives around itself and vacuums, which objectively makes it better than mine as I have to spend time vacuuming and he doesn't.

Thats funny what about learning, i think its impossible to learn even aclose as efficiently without teachers money can buy.

@binjetzterstbeimArzt said in #12:
> Thats funny what about learning, i think its impossible to learn even aclose as efficiently without teachers money can buy.

Yeah it can make sense to splash some money on that too I guess.

Over the years I've learned that I am myself contributing to injustice. For example by buying things that are created through injustice, such as slavery, child labor, ecological destruction and many more forms of injustice. If you want a different world, you literally can't have those things, because having them requires this world to exist. And paying for them rewards the people who do it. Sadly the opposite is not true, by not having them it doesn't end these things from happening. But you are not connected to them as tightly, via possessions, things you hold on to. So it is not a source of happiness,, but I do see it as a lighter burden of inflicted sadness.

@s2numbuq35i said in #14:
> Over the years I've learned that I am myself contributing to injustice. For example by buying things that are created through injustice, such as slavery, child labor, ecological destruction and many more forms of injustice. If you want a different world, you literally can't have those things, because having them requires this world to exist. And paying for them rewards the people who do it. Sadly the opposite is not true, by not having them it doesn't end these things from happening. But you are not connected to them as tightly, via possessions, things you hold on to. So it is not a source of happiness,, but I do see it as a lighter burden of inflicted sadness.

You can go to Japan and Taiwan and buy you tea there.

You can also buy quality products from companies that pay a living wage, but for that you need money.

Funny how even altruism costs money sometimes.

@e_x just out of curiosity are you paid to post here or are these your genuine questions? Would you tell me if you were being paid :P.