Maybe I’m just a peasant, but I don’t understand how a wrist watch can cost nearly twice the average price to buy a house in the US. - ThreadSky

xanindigo.bsky.social • 52 days ago

Maybe I’m just a peasant, but I don’t understand how a wrist watch can cost nearly twice the average price to buy a house in the US.

Reposted from Casey Newton

Zuckerberg Wears $900,000 Watch to Announce End of Meta Fact Checks www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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krovris.bsky.social•52 days ago

Incidentally that watch is worth more than the lives of a TON of folk who can’t afford life-saving healthcare or medication.

nazishmunch.bsky.social•52 days ago

Spending an absurd amount of money hoping to make himself attractive and still failing…

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

trying unsuccessfully to rebrand as a human

nazishmunch.bsky.social•52 days ago

Key word : unsuccessfully 🤣

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

part of me is convinced that the mark up on that watch is just ridiculous and there is just a whole group of marketing and sales people who exist in certain businesses to just convince Billionaires to part with their money for a shiny trinket

knaveryesque.bsky.social•52 days ago

Bespoke scam.

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

Hear me out, what if we as writers produce elaborately fancy copies of our manuscripts to sell to Billionaires for stupid amounts of money? Do you think they would go for it?

knaveryesque.bsky.social•52 days ago

A scribe died from heavy metal poisoning for each page. (No actual scribes killed, the suffering is just a selling point for billionaires)

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

Perfection, absolutely nailing the sales pitch

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

i mean, after people were spending thousands on ugly monkey jpegs a couple of years ago, it’s probably worth a try

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

If there is anything that whole episode taught me, is that Billionaires are basically marks and easily flattered.

"Unique one of kind product"- worth a try

momus.bsky.social•52 days ago

this is what swiss watch makers and french vintners have honed into a true art form over the centuries

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

We must take their secrets and bring it to the people, like prometheus bringing fire to humanity.

ouinne.bsky.social•52 days ago

Money laundering maybe?

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

Thats the art market

ouinne.bsky.social•52 days ago

True but maybe they’re branching out. 😂

mjqwrites.bsky.social•52 days ago

Diversifying the tax dodge 😂

elizabethoutside.bsky.social•52 days ago

He and parasites like him could transform/save lives (healthcare/housing/education/etc.) with the kind of money they wear, say, around their wrists. Instead of a whole community eating for a year, people getting life-saving treatments, etc., he gets a watch.

The ultra-wealthy are

elizabethoutside.bsky.social•52 days ago

literal poison to society and need to be abolished.

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's hard to imagine being in a position to literally end world hunger on a whim and simply choosing not to.

homelessrobot.bsky.social•52 days ago

I mean, platinum construction and a lot of special effects? It's still a completely insane amount of money to pay for a watch, but it's not insane they charged that much??

The crime is that there IS a market for a 900K watch.

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

At around $27k per kilogram, platinum is roughly half the price of gold. Even if it was made of pure rhodium (which is ten times as expensive), $900k would be an absurd price.

homelessrobot.bsky.social•52 days ago

It is absolutely an absurd price. And there is a lot of "you're the only one that can afford this" prestige tax on it. But making a tiny hyper-accurate machine is a skill.

But again--screw him for wearing that to a "I don't need facts!" zoom call.

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

It’s not a hyper-accurate machine, it’s a wristwatch. The price makes even less sense than the people who might pay it.

homelessrobot.bsky.social•52 days ago

Ok.

jillbles.bsky.social•52 days ago

I get what you're saying; a precision timepiece is a time-honored skill, and because watches are among the few pieces of what are, let's face it, jewelry, that are acceptable for MANLY MEN DOING MANLY THINGS, a quality one can cost real money.
But THAT kind of money?

lizardky.bsky.social•52 days ago

Because there's some sucker who will pay that much.

If I could sell the contents of my cats' litter box for 100K/lb, I would.

drtanner.bsky.social•52 days ago

I want to hit it with a fucking hammer.

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

same

mermaidwrath.bsky.social•52 days ago

Rich people are stupid, vain and gullible people that have so little shit to work with in terms of brain/heart/soul that they spend their entire lives trying to prove that others just like them that they are the best and have the best stuff.

momus.bsky.social•52 days ago

if he hadn’t plunked down 20 times the average annual starting teacher salary for a watch, how would anyone know he’s rich?

xanindigo.bsky.social•52 days ago

billionaires should be banned

jjofbc.bsky.social•52 days ago

money is make believe

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