Comment by refurb | Hacker News Reader

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This has to be the most white, upper class, liberal, urban comment on HN I've ever seen.

You’re telling some dude or gal that just pulled a 12 hr shift at 17.25/hr (fuck yeah that $100 pre-tax in overtime is meaningful - best job they’ve ever had) that they shouldn’t buy that 70” TV so they can fuckin’ enjoy the 3 hr of free time they have while sucking back $0.75 cans of Budweiser before getting up in 6hr to do it all over again?

What’s next? They should look at exploring sous vide for their next home cooked meal and maybe some “real” wasabi for their sushi and no green dyed horseradish?

Holy Christ this comment is out of touch with the average American life.

there is a lot of research around this topic, and it is pretty black and white, buying experiences makes you happier than buying things.

Sorry mate, the fact that you could ever consider a consistent $100/day wage to be poverty trumps the OP for the most spoilt, uninformed comment - on any forum - I have ever seen.

Get out more.

You've totally misread the comment you're replying to. The person described is not money-poor, but time-poor and energy-poor. These people can afford experiences but given their lifestyle, it isn't really feasible to partake in them compared to buying things like a new TV or phone.

I disagree.

I think you'll find high-income finance/law/medicine/entrepeneur types are even more time and energy constrained. Yet, I doubt the poster would be bleating about them.

There is a nasty polemic (especially prevalent on HN) that any possible advice about personal choices must be from some racially-narrow, empathy-lacking urbane perspective.

And the poster also suggests that coloured folk can neither perceive, nor possibly comment that that a group of largely overweight, sedentary, reasonably affluent people stuck to 70" TVs shouldn't perhaps just go for a walk.

Occasionally, on the weekend.

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He didn't say any of the things you're accusing him of.

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