I’m getting pretty pissy in my age. Too many responsibilities, not enough money and time to handle them all.

Books are one of the few things I am more than willing to pay full price for.

Sure the publishers eat a lot of the money, but the authors don’t do too badly.

The very nature of a book (unless something is published as an e-book only) keeps it from being enshittfied like streaming audio and video services. If someone were to print an ad in the book, I could just rip it out and throw it away.

Books are one of the last places where you just will not see an ad or be tracked, or have popups, and other irritating “features”.

Books are good.

Hm, that’s odd. I just laughed a lot. 🤷

No.

I’m in the top 3%. I’ve never even CONSIDERED doing something like that. I have retirement to save for, kids to put through college. My car is now old enough to get a driver’s license of it’s own. I don’t piss my money away on stupid shit, I don’t buy an endless stream of consumer goods. My watch came from Costco. I fix my own cars, do my own home renovation when it’s cost and time effective. I clean my own bathrooms.

Yes, a trip up everest is for a 1%er or a fucking moron who can’t actually afford it.