Funny, I don’t look like I’m living in Balmoral or Windsor or Kensington or Buckingham, and I’m not working at St James.
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Agree with the article’s point, though I probably wouldn’t open with that paragraph if I was trying to make a point about the relative luxury that the common man enjoys lol
I do try to take stock and appreciate how good some things are from time to time. TVs and electronics always amaze me with how far they’ve come. I remember when a flat screen TV was considered the ultimate luxury item for your Sim, as in the only way you’d have one is if you were playing a video game and your Sim made enough money to buy one (or you used the old rosebud cheat). Now everyone has one. And much like some famous writer whose name escapes me observed about Coca Cola, there’s no “rich man iPhone” and “poor man iPhone.” A few differences in models but at the end of the day, not even Elon Musk could buy a phone better than what a humble accountant could buy.
What I think warrants deeper inspection is why, in the face of relative abundance and luxury and just better standards of living, people feel so precarious and unsatisfied.
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Funny, I don’t look like I’m living in Balmoral or Windsor or Kensington or Buckingham, and I’m not working at St James.
Agree with the article’s point, though I probably wouldn’t open with that paragraph if I was trying to make a point about the relative luxury that the common man enjoys lol
I do try to take stock and appreciate how good some things are from time to time. TVs and electronics always amaze me with how far they’ve come. I remember when a flat screen TV was considered the ultimate luxury item for your Sim, as in the only way you’d have one is if you were playing a video game and your Sim made enough money to buy one (or you used the old rosebud cheat). Now everyone has one. And much like some famous writer whose name escapes me observed about Coca Cola, there’s no “rich man iPhone” and “poor man iPhone.” A few differences in models but at the end of the day, not even Elon Musk could buy a phone better than what a humble accountant could buy.
What I think warrants deeper inspection is why, in the face of relative abundance and luxury and just better standards of living, people feel so precarious and unsatisfied.