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That would be two thousand $5 purchases.
At two purchases per day, that's about 2 years, 9 months.
At one purchase a day, that's about 5 years 6 months.
At two purchases per week, that's about 19 years 3 months.
At one purchase for week, that's about 38 years, 5 months.
Sandwiches are about $5. I eat a lotta sandwiches.
Who's your sandwich guy?
Yeah but you're going to eat something right? So it's probably fine.
I like sandwiches, I eat them all the time.
All the time? Even right now?
I eat them for my breakfast and I eat them for my lunch. If I had a hundred sandwiches I'd eat them all at once.
Thats a shockingly short period of time. Assuming two why not purchases a week, the average person spends $40,500 in their 78year lifespan.
The two a day spenders total out to $283,600.
Okay, and did those 2000 purchases bring you cumulatively more joy than a single $10,000 purchase?
Almost certainly.
What a great point. The little bits of joy definetly add up to alot more.
Interestingly this is a thing in positive psychology, commonly refered to as savoring. Its a technique of paying special attention to small moments of happiness because they affect our overall mood alot more than big moments people tend to fixate on.
Heres a research article on the topic for anyone interested. the abstract gives a good overview of the concept.
My problem is falling for the “oh, the next model up has x feature for only £x more” ploy.
Before I know it, I’m at like double my initial price point .
This is so intentional by the people setting the prices as well. I know that's obvious to some, but I still think it's worth highlighting.
Yeah, it's definitely true in mainstream products, but once you get into niche stuff there's a few different elements that come into play. Like yeah you do actually, measurably get more for what you pay, each brand just has incremental units with X and Y functionality added as you go along. But there's also an element of brand recognition and are you getting the top name in the business that can just price whatever they want, or are you going for the underdog that overdelivers for a lower price, but it may break on you or miss some of the shine.
Personally, I'm more likely to go for the higher/highest model, to squeeze the most functionality out of my purchase, but I'm also more willing to give the underdogs a shot and save big that way instead.
Taking advantage of this is pretty much Apple’s entire business model.
Pricing ~~tiers~~ ladder
the $3500 I've spend on steam is probably 75% this
This also made me think of steam immediately
When that rainy day hits, the gaming is gonna be legit.
"It's one banana, Michael, what could it cost?"
i assume some of those were worth the expense
Their username is amusing though
You know what $5 gets you? 5 mcChickens at mcdons in 2019
You know what $5 gets you? 93% of a mcchicken at MickyD's 2023.
People eat McDonald's in 2023?
My steam library concurs.
It's like a museum to my impulse buys
Gacha gaming be like:
10k? lol what a noob! My hobby is crochet! 10k is only the ungly-yarn-that-i-probably-never-gonna-use-amount.