taiyang@lemmy.worldtoNew York Times•I’m Hearing Huge Relief From Democrats Over Harris’s Debate Performance
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9 days agoI had pretty strong confidence in her after seeing her speak a few other places. I found it funny Nate Silver had Trump 60-40 odds (and betters had it 2:1). If I didn’t find it immoral to bet on something like a debate, I’d probably have made a thousand bucks tonight.
That said, the bar was so much higher for Harris than it was for Trump, the 2:1 odds probably took that handicap into consideration.
I learned a perspective trick whenever I ridicule a price I see for something like quality clothes and such. For every additional digit in your income, remove a digit from the cost of something. Most of us are at 5 digits, and we prefer sales because 100 dollars for a pair of jeans is way too much while 10 dollars isn’t. To a 6 digit earner, the base price of affordable.
Now think of someone who earns 7 digits as year, to them a 1000 dollar piece of clothing is reasonable. To the 8 digit, a 10000 dollar piece of clothing is reasonable. If you make a billion dollars a year? A pair of jeans worth 1 million dollars is reasonable.
It’s just a thought experiment but it helps me better understand why gacha whales exist, why people buy million dollar cars, etc… It’s also just so far removed from the rest of society that it’d be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.