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 used to brew years ago. I come from a long line of beer brewers, even before it was legal in my state. Look up Rocky Raccoons honeyed Lager some day. I quit because my wife was diagnosed with celiac, and we could no longer drink it together. Kind of took the fun out of brewing for me. I smoke pounds of bacon and such now. And I still try and build a new model steam engine every winter when I'm not ice fishing.
Hobbies are a good thing. They keep your mind sharp and your hands functional.
I too want to make cheese! It's exciting! And at the end I might have cheese!!
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.
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!
We're just barely over 40 and are taking stock over the massive quantity of things we've built up. We have a ton of stuff from previous times in our lives that still work, but we haven't used in 5, or even 10, years. Some examples are easier, like college text books. Others are a bit more fraught like my original PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Xbox that all still work, but just aren't getting used.
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I’m selling everything right now, too. I’m over stuff.
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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.
There are no good billionaires
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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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A house, but with little slots in walls every few meters hiding over 100 watt power delivery usb c sockets
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?
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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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.
I want to hire a hairdresser that washes my hair and does the head massage every morning. Everyday my head shall be rubbed.
Buy areas next to churches and put sex shops in them. Although, now that I think about it, those places would probably rake in cash, like 70% of pastors are massive perverts with too much money
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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.
Totally. I'm not rich at all, but I can afford good coffee. Still, I simply can't justify the price.
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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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