Smile and say “it’s very pretty”.
Ok, and what’s your question?
Man, it is a shame you can’t buy class because you could use some.
They have car money to spend on trinkets, this guy has enough class that it’s time to send him against the wall.
“What a horrible financial decision”
I wouldn’t even hide that watch up my ass.
That watch salesman really ripped you off then.
Cool. Anyway…
“So instead of feeding hundreds of hungry children, you decided to get gaudy jewelry that tells everyone you’re a greedy cunt?”
Sounds poor and mad 😔
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
Maybe it’s appropriate to get mad at such pointless waste.
I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
The “specialist” working for a car’s worth for a single watch, could be something useful instead. It’s proportionnally as much waste as a private jet. For the price, the jet is also very little resources consumed but an ungodly amount of labour goes into them that could instead be doing something useful !
The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.
Whether you pay a factory to make car priced watched or private jets, all that money pays people who will emit just as much CO2.
I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.
In both cases, the products we make are largely useless fabricated demand by advertising.
If you need to point out the watch and explain its value, you’ve already lost.
‘I can think of many better uses for the metals in that watch.’
See this casio watch? Still more accurate than whatever the fuck watch you have
It even comes with the bonus of extra TSA screening!
“Nice, but I kinda prefer the newer model from the spring catalogue. The subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark.”
That’s how they’ll know whose assets to liquidate when the world wakes up.
“that’s a lot of money for such an ugly watch.”
Sorry I’m not into bracelets
