Vaniver comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 16 October 2012 04:30:13PM 2 points [-]

This particular post mostly agrees with the received wisdom

It has a funny way of showing it then:

Money doesn't buy happiness. If you want to try throwing money at the problem anyway, you should buy experiences like vacations or services, rather than purchasing objects. If you have to buy objects, they should be absolute and not positional goods; positional goods just put you on a treadmill and you're never going to catch up.

Supposedly.

Comment author: Vaniver 16 October 2012 07:17:43PM 7 points [-]

I agree that it claims to disagree with it, but look at the actual recommendations of the post. Don't buy items that won't make your life noticeably better; use the items you already have to make your life better; turn your objects into experiences as much as possible. All of those fit with the received wisdom.

Comment author: handoflixue 16 October 2012 07:30:05PM 5 points [-]

Agreed. I'd say it can be reasonably summarized as extending "conventional wisdom" to include the idea that purchasing goods often enables experiences (whether this be "having a snake", "not getting soaked when walking in the rain", "sharing muffins with friends", or "camping")

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