necesity, passion/hobby, or luxury/consumerism
some things like food can hardly be considered a luxury. but when you need to import your caviar from the baltic sea it does.
how would these be categorized: nececity, hobby/passion, or just luxury/spending
a wallet
a cellular phone
a laptop computer
a lock for a bike
flatware
batteries
stationary
what about more complicated situations. for example, a tennis player may deem a tennis racquet under the hobby/passion category. but what about a machine that strings tennis racquets? what category would that be? it must be for sure that a tennis players do not enjoy sitting down and running cow intestine through their frames so its probably not a hobby/passion. he just "needs" this to keep his frames at the right tension. but then that raises the question that he doesnt need tennis frames in the first place.
and then there is the really strange paradox that hobbies/passions are very rarely technologically dependant, so it doesn't really follow the stereo typical pattern of lavish spending. for example us drivers love driving, but many would prefer not to pay for an automatic transmission. likewise a photophile wouldn't use a digital camera if he or she really was dedicated to photography (i could be wrong). can you think of a technology-dependant a passion-inducing hobby? i can only think of ones that purists deal with the bare-bones.
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