The Justification for Expenditure

[sathor]

One of the synths I use went from $199 (when I bought it sometime around August) to $149.

$199 is less than a PS3 or XBOX360, less than four games for either of those systems, and less than four games for PC (for that matter.)

Because I've spent such a great deal of time using this particular synth (and the other two I purchased simultaneously), I can't really say it was a bad investment...and there's an alternative benefit.

While a game, or console I can see only as a somewhat selfish investment, the amount of time other people spend listening or thinking about what I've done with those synths should count as a kind of counter balance as well. The same can't be said so easily for gaming.

So maybe I didn't choose such a bad pass time after all.

I'm actually rather glad to see it is still priced that highly. That means it's still competitive in the market...a 25% drop in price over more than half a year (it was out long before I bought it) bodes pretty well for the makers of it.

Comments

selfishness...

[sendao.livejournal.com]

Selfishness is a funny story. What's the problem with being selfish? It's that nobody else gets to have a say over you. That's really not a problem by itself. Nobody has the right to have any say over you anyway. When you choose to give up your right to be alone playing video games or twiddling whatever you're going to twiddle, and spend time with other people, you're being a worthwhile person to them, instead of being selfish to them. But does it really matter? Only to them. So who cares? Only them. The only problem is they might stop caring... but if you're being selfish, maybe that's what you want anyway! [/rant]