small frivolous expenses—i don’t wanna touch burritos let’s go back to avocado toast—don’t indicate the purchaser is either wealthy or foolish. they can be chosen bc, despite their frivolity, they are immaterial relative to big sources of financial stress + deliver pleasure worth the small cost. 1/

humans don’t reveal lexical preferences for what finger-waggers deem essential first to frivolities only if income remains. this includes the preferences of the finger waggers whose excess income only lets them pretend their preferences are unhumanly hierarchical. /fin