This is one of the hardest earned lessons I’ve ever learned, and I’ve had to learn it over and over again. I think it’s mostly stuck now but I still make the same mistake from time to time.
I’m not buying hardware that doesn’t suit my needs as an investment hoping maybe it eventually will.
amanda@aggregatet.org 2 months ago
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 months ago
Yeah, thats the reason why we‘re in this capitalist hellhole. Perfection comes from billionaire money, nothing else.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What are you talking about perfection?
Buying something that doesn’t function is never rational.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 months ago
You were misrepresenting things. Your needs have nothing to do with things not being functional. Something can be perfectly functional and not meet someones needs. Nobody said you should buy it as an investment.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My interpretation was by far the most generous to your position, because it’s the only way it’s coherent.
If people bought [this hardware that doesn’t actually provide anything anyone can realistically use at a reasonable price] it might eventually not suck. That’s treating a current purchase as an imaginary investment in maybe eventually being able to buy something useful.