Why Do Assholes Love Watches?
The article is filled with fascinating anecdotes and insight. Since I am the Editor and Publisher of three major watch related blogs, I obviously disagree on many levels with the author, and on other levels, I understand his perspective. If you have some spare time to read, I very, very highly recommend reading the comments left by readers in the story. They are absolutely fascinating!!!
The reason I am writing this post is because of this fascinating response from somebody who uses the handle of Suburban Brawl:
It's pretty funny all the reactionary defenses of consumption habits on display here.
It's pretty simple: what people want in aggregate determines what they demand in aggregate. What they demand in aggregate determines what people produce in aggregate. What people produce in aggregate determines how labor time is spent, how natural resources are used, how land is apportioned, &etc. Accordingly, changing people's consumer preferences, in aggregate, affects what the world makes, what the world uses, and how people spend their time.
So if you think there is inequity in how time is spent, how resources are used, and in what is or isn't produced, then one obvious path to remedy this is to... change what people spend their money and exert their labor to get. Change preferences in aggregate, you change what gets produced in aggregate - like shifting resources from, say, watches, to charity or scientific research or leisure or whatever.
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