Paloth opened this issue on Sep 18, 2007 · 86 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 20 September 2007 at 2:01 PM
The only reason why I say the things that I've said is because I've known people to entangle themselves in debt so that they could buy something that wasn't worth anything 3 or 4 years later. Or even faster than that, in some cases.
Sure -- if someone is heavy on the personal resource end of the equation: then there might not be any issue at all involved in purchasing the current Ferrari of computers. But for the vast majority of the poplulation -- an expenditure of many 1000's of dollars needs to be considered carefully. Or at least it should be. If I can get what I need for $2000, then $10,000 is additional money spent for nothin' but (temporary) braggin' rights. Better to hang onto the money, and then buy another $2000 machine in 3 years.
But to each their own -- everyone can do as they like. Even if doing it is fiscally foolish behavior in some cases.