KISS and YAGNI

Perception that the generic brands don’t work as well or are lower quality. I had a co-worker who maintained that the generic version of his prescription drug didn’t work at all for him (this was back when France passed a law that is generic version of your medicine existed, the branded version wouldn’t be fully covered by the state health insurance, so lots of people were complaining about them)

I grew up in a poor household, relative to the other kids I went to school with. While I was in public school, I was bullied for not wearing name brand clothing and because all of my school supplies and snacks and everything was generic brand. I became extremely self-conscious about it, and was always trying to hide what I had, or if I found name brand packaging for something in the trash or on the floor, I’d grab it so I could repackage my stuff and pretend like I totally had name brand stuff. As a young adult when I went to college, I only ever aimed for buying name brand stuff, but it was really hard to do so, considering I was still broke…

Anyways, I eventually matured a little more and realized kids are cruel and the whole thing was dumb. I exclusively go with generic everything now and am, always trying to get the best deal, and I even went back to buying second-hand clothes, cause why not?

All that to say, maybe some people had similar experiences and just never grew out of it.

For the most part, I choose the generic version for pharmaceuticals where available, but there are a few exceptions. For example, for something like a nasal spray, the generic version’s dispensing mechanism may be inferior?

In Canada we have generics and we still scare smoothbrainers about how the generics will give you a shitty ass compared to the full Branded version just to keep them in the ecosystem

And then we make it so you can’t fill all your prescriptions on the same day, so now you gotta set calendar reminders for when each one is due for a refill