Comments on: Selling your stuff? Oh, the horror http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/03/13/selling-your-stuff-oh-the-horror/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:28:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Frields http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/03/13/selling-your-stuff-oh-the-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Paul Frields Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:50:11 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/?p=553#comment-624 It's funny that you never hear this kind of argument from people who make furniture. Furniture, like a game, ostensibly can last pretty much forever in terms of functionality. And yet you never hear Broyhill complain that people sell their used sofas. And arguably each of those sales is "costing" them a lot more money than a resold computer game "costs" its maker. When I first started this reply I was going to make some fuddy-duddy point about the fleeting and questionable value of entertainment media versus the lasting value of, say, furniture. Now I'm just depressed that people who make the stuff place such a high value on it. It's much better making things of lasting value that help your fellow man, don't you agree? It’s funny that you never hear this kind of argument from people who make furniture. Furniture, like a game, ostensibly can last pretty much forever in terms of functionality. And yet you never hear Broyhill complain that people sell their used sofas. And arguably each of those sales is “costing” them a lot more money than a resold computer game “costs” its maker.

When I first started this reply I was going to make some fuddy-duddy point about the fleeting and questionable value of entertainment media versus the lasting value of, say, furniture. Now I’m just depressed that people who make the stuff place such a high value on it. It’s much better making things of lasting value that help your fellow man, don’t you agree?

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