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thetwitchy1 OP t1_j1wwo8j wrote

Bread, rice, houses, shoes… none of these are really “something you can live without”.

Croissants, wild risotto, mansions, air Jordan’s… these are all items you really never NEED.

Imho, that’s the difference.

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natepriv22 t1_j1yaql8 wrote

And yet the ones you listed below are worth more than the ones you listed above

That's due to marginal utility theory: "People make decisions on the margin. No one chooses between "guns" or "butter", but between a definite amount of guns and a definite amount of butter.

As an actor acquires more and more units of a good, he devotes them to successively less and less urgent ends (i.e. ends that are lower on his scale of values). Therefore the marginal utility of a good declines as its supply increases. This is the law of diminishing marginal utility."

Source: https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

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