What Expensive Version Did You Try and Now You Never Wanted to Go Back to the Cheap Thing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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What Expensive Version Did You Try and Now You Never Wanted to Go Back to the Cheap Thing?

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[-] malamignasanmig@group.lt 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

shoes. though not technically expensive because i buy them used (they are expensive when bought new).
cheap shoes will hurt your feet, are easily damaged, and not repairable. the cheapest shoes i had lasted 2 weeks. leather ones can last years with proper care and resole.

bamboo socks. they have better odor resistance than cotton ones.

getting sick of my cheap earphones, on the hunt for a php500-1000 corded earphone.

[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Have you heard of Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory? Sam Vimes is a protagonist in many of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.