02-15-2016, 06:18 PM
(02-10-2016, 03:37 PM)gstanford Wrote: BoFox, everyone has their own way of spoiling themselves. Mine is to get two sweet spot video cards every two years or so. I don't care about their eventual resale value - I don't resell them. They lose 100% of their value the day I buy them.
This is hardly extravagance in the grand scheme of things, and is absolutely nothing compared to Rollo's extravagances. Not even the two times I purchased high-end graphics cards (8800 GTX & GTX 280's) counts as extravagant.
You could however argue that the 30" 2560x1600 monitor I bought was extravagant given the amount of GPU power required to drive it well. This is something I have since corrected.
If the worst criticism/accusation of extravagance people can level at me is possession of SLI'd sweet spot cards I will rest very easily indeed.
GStan, why do you think people risk their assets to start businesses?
Why do you think they go through expensive and difficult university programs like electrical engineering that make Tape U look like kindergarten?
Why do you think they take expensive and difficult university programs like medicine and dentistry, then spend hundreds of thousands to open an office?
So they can live like guys that went to Tape U, and save the rest of their money for the government to take and dole out to the poor?
People do extra work, risk assets, and work through higher educational requirements to buy the "extravagances" you revile. They have no reason to be criticized or "accused", they are just people who did more than you did to earn the extravagances. No one would bother if there was no reward.