why having money helps you not buy

[dichroic]

I’ve just realized a corollary to the Sam Vimes theory of economic injustice. I don’t have a catchy name for it yet, but the gist is that having enough money - and being confident that you will have enough in the foreseeable future - saves you from making unnecessary purchases.

Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have three pair of jeans. That seems

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[spacefem]

I think this was the whole idea behind the usps "forever" stamps too - they knew that most people would freak out about the idea of an item whose price would definitely increase, and people would buy enough stamps to last a decade, and they'd get more of our money now. by the time the stamps were actually needed half of them would surely be lost. or maybe they'd never be needed.

[rebeccmeister]

To some degree this sums up an aspect of minimalism that I find irritating. Poor people generally can't afford to be minimalists. Of course, I am sure that many minimialists are perfectly well-intentioned in their chosen lifestyles.