I’d think the opportunity cost is easier to realise with the absolute difference in currency units. The price of any alternatives you might consider is usually specified in currency units.
The only relative that I’d think might be helpful for expensive purchases would be to convert a price orrice difference into number of days/ week / months of your expected disposable income or something like that.
Pretty much nothing i use my phone for can be done on a flip phone. Smartphone is no distraction for me - I just use it when I need it to do something for me.
maps - occasionally GPS.
mp3 player
mp4s watching on long train / bus rides or when camping.
large sd card (500gb)
memrise/ language learning app.
occasionally guitar tuner
occasionally internet is useful for checking events, buying tickets, checking for hotels and stuff.
occasionally checking emails.
occasionally playing mindustry (when i want my battery to die).
I don’t carry a laptop most of the time that i’d need for most of that stuff above. TBH - I can’t use many other apps anyway because I don’t want GPS or microG installed - so I’m mostly just f-droid apps.
Edit - i’d also prefer something like simpleX to SMS, but I don’t actually know anyone else who uses it - so not an issue really. I just have to SMS.
‘Fuck you/off/that’ = don’t do it. ‘Whatever’ = go ahead.
I think this is where the weird German “doch”, that i really can’t get my head around, might be useful.
Most tea-shits are actually made from cotton or polyester too; it’s a fucking scandal.
I think the british royal navy became one of the more successful pirate gangs if that helps the analysis. They were part state subsidised, but became rapidly self sustaining. If your British made galleon is shit, don’t worry, it only needs to last long enough to steal a French made one!
Just a point of information though I think ‘capitalists’ normally (nominally) support property rights. I think you’re talking libertarian / anarchist who are more literally smash and grab. But it is a blurry line. At the end of the day they’re all just humans. Striving to label them, or their behaviour, and then second guessing the meaning of the labels, or expecting consistency will probably drive you insane.
Castleween
Previously i’ve only accepted AI into my life as a thing to use when I get asked ‘stupid business jargon management /HR question’ at work.
but I’m tentatively prepeared to allow this, it might be raisin the bar.
If you figure out the right protocol you could probably catapult a series of twisted pears from house to house.
The way the internet is going, bashed and bruised fruit salad sounds preferable to the actual data anyway.
Is marriage just mutual public rickrolling?
I’d think funding is important…
If you’re getting paid to do it, commissioned directly, or funded by a patron; you’re an insider.
If you’re doing it without promise of pay, and just hoping to sell it afterwards (or not) you’re an outsider.
Put another way, professional / tradesperson vs amateur.
He missed out on the darwin award too.
Stupid Ghents.
Don’t hammer whilst on drugs kids.
It can be a gateway to ridiculous trousers.
Cool, they got SLAMMED!. That’ll learn them.
Birds are just dinosaurs after Steam blocked most of the adult content.
I use CDs, Records and occasionally bandcamp - usually just for a free listen before I go to their concerts and buy from them there.
But just to be clear I also buy a lot of used records and cds; which I think can be seen as similarly immoral. Evil used record stores hoarding all the margin and never compensating the original artists. Again if they’re any good and ever play nearby, they’ll get a ticket sale and maybe I’ll by a record direct from them if they do a good show.
Mostly I only care about the morality for small/new/unpopular bands, first few albums and so on.
I couldn’t give a shit about compensating large successful artists like the Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan - or more accurately, whoever they sold their catalogue rights to.