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The wisdom of Pastabagel
Apr. 24th, 2010 11:00 pmCoveting possessions is unhealthy. Here's how I look at it:
All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free.
When I want to take something out of storage, I just pay the for the storage costs for that particular thing up to that point, plus a nominal shipping fee, and my things are delivered to me so I can use them. When I am done with them, I return them to storage via Craigslist or Ebay, and I am given a fee as compensation for freeing up the storage facilities resources.
This is also the case with all of my stuff that Amazon and Walmart are holding for me. I have antiques, priceless art, cars, estates, and jewels beyond the dreams of avarice.
The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. The James Savages of the world are merely curators.
As I am the curator of their things, and thus together we all share the world.
The above was a comment by Pastabagel on metafilter, in response to a post about a guy with 150 computers. Wisdom shows up in the most unlikely places! Now, could I quibble with the above? Of course. Consider maintenance, for instance, which is not free even if storage is. And consider the things that one may not buy, because they are out of print or beyond one's net worth. Think what if everyone thought this way... would industry collapse? And then stop overanalyzing already, and read it again: the apparently carbo-loaded Pastabagel has made a rather wonderful point about access versus ownership, and which one really matters. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
islenskr for the link to the link to the link. :-)
All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free.
When I want to take something out of storage, I just pay the for the storage costs for that particular thing up to that point, plus a nominal shipping fee, and my things are delivered to me so I can use them. When I am done with them, I return them to storage via Craigslist or Ebay, and I am given a fee as compensation for freeing up the storage facilities resources.
This is also the case with all of my stuff that Amazon and Walmart are holding for me. I have antiques, priceless art, cars, estates, and jewels beyond the dreams of avarice.
The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. The James Savages of the world are merely curators.
As I am the curator of their things, and thus together we all share the world.
The above was a comment by Pastabagel on metafilter, in response to a post about a guy with 150 computers. Wisdom shows up in the most unlikely places! Now, could I quibble with the above? Of course. Consider maintenance, for instance, which is not free even if storage is. And consider the things that one may not buy, because they are out of print or beyond one's net worth. Think what if everyone thought this way... would industry collapse? And then stop overanalyzing already, and read it again: the apparently carbo-loaded Pastabagel has made a rather wonderful point about access versus ownership, and which one really matters. Thanks to
islenskr for the link to the link to the link. :-)
