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kalium comments on "Stupid" questions thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kalium 15 July 2013 05:27:47AM 2 points [-]

If you can afford to eat out with your friends you can afford to eat a bit better and have more fun.

"If you can afford $X, you can afford $X+5" is a dangerous rule to live by, and terrible advice. Obscuring costs is not an upside unless you're very sure that your reaction to them was irrational to begin with.