Doesn’t have to be a thing you bought. Just some thing you didn’t have but then once you did it expanded your scope of actions.
The first obvious example that comes to mind is a car. Plenty of drawbacks to prevalence of cars, but being able to go where I want when I want, and far away, is very transformative.
I’m interested in other examples of things that aren’t just useful, but that open new possibilities.
- I want to downvote you cos I disagree.
- But I have a policy of never downvoting unless it’s spam.
- But you seem to be posting this to get downvotes to test the hypothesis of the OP. A downvote will help you in the long run.
- But I disagree with you so do I wanna help you?
- Of course I wanna help cos life is hard.
- But I don’t do downvotes unless it’s spam…
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