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Why I Hope Conspicuous Consumption Dies in the Age of the Kindle, Ctd
Byby Patrick Appel
A reader writes:
I had a laugh at this – a Kindle is a $300 dollar
device that lets you read a book! It’s not $300 dollars worth of pages
and print; it’s the equivalent of spending $300 dollars for a blank cover
and binder. You still have to spend more money to load the actual print you
want into it, and the whole thing may be moot as soon as the next upgraded
version comes along. People who buy a Kindle are saying they have the money to commit
to not just the Kindle, but also the software and the implied arms race
of continuous upgrades the device implies. If that’s not a form of
conspicuous consumption, I don’t know what is.
