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And what's wrong with that if you can afford it like the OP said they could?


Waste. Physical electronic waste and opportunity cost.

For example, these cost more money than an average resident of Sierra Leone earns in a month. You could donate to feed their family.

Or for $550, you could spend $300 on buying a Kenyan family 5 sheep, $100 on gifting 5 Serbian women a month of literacy classes each, and $150 on 15 rides to school for refugee children in Egypt. Taxes not included.¹

¹https://cwsbestgift.org/


Or you could buy yourself a really nice set of $200 headphones and still send $350 to charity.


You're asking what's wrong with wasting money?




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