Furthering the idea that ‘life is more than mere survival’, I want to add that choosing to buy or not buy an item affects more than just you.
When you buy a $70 item from Amazon on sale, yes, you’ve spent $70 and not ‘saved’ anything at all. But even if it was a good price, you should consider the added cost is that you gave your $70 to the evil empire. Amazon got your money, and you got your trinket. Surely it would be better if you spent the $70 somewhere else. Give it to someone that you like more than Jeff Bezos. I’m sure you can think of someone like that. You probably won’t be able to buy that exact same trinket for $70, but surely you’ll get something else you want - and you can actually help someone else at the same time rather than entrenching the power of exploitation.
And sometimes you can choose not to buy something that really will improve your life until you see it on sale. Maybe you don’t need it, but it’s more affordable now, so you go ahead and buy it and it makes your life better.
Furthering the idea that ‘life is more than mere survival’, I want to add that choosing to buy or not buy an item affects more than just you.
When you buy a $70 item from Amazon on sale, yes, you’ve spent $70 and not ‘saved’ anything at all. But even if it was a good price, you should consider the added cost is that you gave your $70 to the evil empire. Amazon got your money, and you got your trinket. Surely it would be better if you spent the $70 somewhere else. Give it to someone that you like more than Jeff Bezos. I’m sure you can think of someone like that. You probably won’t be able to buy that exact same trinket for $70, but surely you’ll get something else you want - and you can actually help someone else at the same time rather than entrenching the power of exploitation.
And sometimes you can choose not to buy something that really will improve your life until you see it on sale. Maybe you don’t need it, but it’s more affordable now, so you go ahead and buy it and it makes your life better.