If it's not a luxury, what is it? A necessity? An investment? An uncancelled term in the Matrix?
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I'm old, and I have learned that things mean less and less as you get older. I fact I'm trying to get rid of things now. It's amazing as to what one accumulates over a long lifetime.
If there is one thing I would buy irresponsibly, it would be tea. The finest and freshest DanCong teas, the ripest Sheng PuErh, and Rock Oolongs. And I would drink them everyday while listening to the sound of the loons in the early mornings.
Or maybe a real vacation somewhere. Me and Grandma haven't ever taken a vacation in over 40 years. She would love that I think.
I've actually become more materialistic, but in a "I want more tools so I can learn more skills and do more things" sort of way.
I want to brew my own beer and make my own cheese. Experience tells me I enjoy things I make with my hands much much more than when I buy them.
I got into wine making in the past 2 years and it is consuming me. I hardly drink any myself but I love tweaking the recipe and giving it away.
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Yes yes yes to the tea!
Also good tea sets in a variety of forms. I have a teeny set for travel, large set for hotels and where I have luggage to carry it around, and I want to eventually get a full GongFu tea table with integrated drain and kettle filling station.
What I love about it is it's really cheap. The most expensive tea I have is $4 per session and it's delicious 😋
I tried Gong Fu, but it's not for me. My personality is wrong for it. Too much action and not enough stillness I guess. So I brew Grandpa style. I'm jelly of you! And there are all kinds of decent and good teas that won't break the bank. And half the fun is looking for them.
Remember: Drink the tea you like the way you like it!
I just went through a big purge of stuff a few years ago. At first it was difficult to let go of the I-may-need-it-someday thoughts about things I haven't used or seen in 5+ years. Then it occurred to me that if I do need this thing I can always buy it later. It became much easier to donate most of the stuff. And honestly, today I couldn't even tell you what I got rid of, which tells me how unimportant it really was in my life.
And it was so liberating wasn't it!
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If the topic really is "a luxury I can't live without," then quality coffee is a great example, and a private plane is a profoundly bad example.
It's so shockingly wrong that it's hard to imagine it's not just a bit that they worked out ahead of time.
The rich will claim you’re driving them to abject poverty if you tax them into only having a million dollars.
My bare minimum standard for calling a person "rich" is whether they can live in luxury purely on the passive income from their investments. By that standard, a person with only a million dollars would not be rich. You probably need more like 10 million.
I agree one million isn't abject poverty, but it would be a giant change in lifestyle. They'd either have to give up on most luxuries and live somewhere cheap, or they'd have to actually work for money.
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To be fair, a million dollars in some parts of the US gets you a decent size house and one car. You still need to work every day. You can still be bankrupt by medical debt.
Contrast that with actual rich folks who can burn a million dollars in a bon fire every morning and still have more money at the end of the year than they started with.
Point is: The former are more comfortable than many. The latter are a literal cancer on society that must be addressed.
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Larry King is a well known numbskull, he would literally avoid researching his interviewees before because he thought it made for better interviews, but it ended up just making him look ignorant
That was one thing I did like the concept of, but it is terrible on TV.
I like it because it's like being at a party and just chatting, only to discover you're talking to a world famous heart surgeon, but they're too humble to explain it all. It may also be refreshing to them, as they're so used to getting all the attention and here is this person interviewing them who isn't a stan.
Larry though kind of has a chip on his shoulder. He is always bragging and name dropping. Which makes him intolerable to watch.
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I love asking people what their first irresponsible purchase would be if they won the lottery.
Everyone has the day dream of paying off medical debt, your parent's mortgage, new car, fun vacation. But that's all responsible. I want to know what the unhinged thing you probably shouldn't do is. My favorite answer was Baja Blast on tap bedside.
An auto shop.
Just spend my days fixing cars, I'd have a few dozen and just restore em. Nothing crazy, I'd have things like a pristine geo metro. All the cheap cars that I just enjoy. I'd sell em, but I like keeping old stuff working.
Or I'd spend a year and go to every Cubs game. Just follow em around the country.
Fully fitted set of 15th c. style gothic plate armour and accompanying zweihander.
Custom made modern, or actually reconditioned ancient?
Two chicks at the same time.
You don't need a million bucks to do two chicks at the same time.
I do for the kinda chicks that would double up on a guy like me.
Fuckin A
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Most of the times I've done that I was broke
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I want to hire a hairdresser that washes my hair and does the head massage every morning. Everyday my head shall be rubbed.
Oh god that's the sort of question I would have to ask if they really want to know the TRUE first thing or the first thing appropriate for general audiences lol.
Idk.im probably autistic but like i just wouldn't buy anything irresponsible lmao like i dont get the question i guess, if you really enjoy something it's not irresponsible and you're rich as hell so go for it.
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I've never been interested in Vegas. But recently I found out there's a place near Vegas that lets you rent a tank and then you can run over cars and I think you can shoot it too. And you can shoot a real minigun! To shoot that gun for a minute is like $14,000. So I take a few of my friends to go do that,
To shoot it for 10 seconds is about $400. I go there myself to shoot the ww1 guns.
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A house, but with little slots in walls every few meters hiding over 100 watt power delivery usb c sockets
I can also make my sunday breakfast everywhere. It's still a luxury. What silly reasoning.
Wtf. Larry, do you know how expensive really good coffee is? It's like $20-30 USD for 12 oz / 340g of really good, independently-roasted stuff. That shit is not cheap.
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I can't tell if Larry King just assumed that Danny is wealthy because he's an actor, or if he was really so out of touch with reality that he didn't realize there are people out there who can't afford private jets.
Larry King was that out of touch. His circle of friends owned media conglomerates and had private islands. His guests typically did too or some flavor of access to the mechanisms of wealth. It was strange seeing a voice actor get interviewed by the biggest softball interviewer but it gave us some gems.
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Yeah, this better because Danny tried again with nice running socks which also fits the description before Larry came in with the private plane. He should’ve realized his question was not what he thought it was at that point lol
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