{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"jimmysong wrote","author_name":"jimmysong (npub10v…psp42)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Why do we buy junk?\n\nBecause the status games we're forced to play. In a fiat economy, the status games are all funded by debt. So-and-so got a new phone, now I do, too. So-and-so got a new car, now I have to as well. So-and-so got a new house, sent their kid to a particular college. All the status games are fueled by bringing consumption forward.\n\nStatus games are by nature zero-sum and very high time preference. Yet people play them because they're social animals."}