Perhaps I'm conforming to a cult of prosperity. Or perhaps I'm supporting local business, helping the environment by reducing food transportation, eating healthily, eating good food, and meeting local people with similar interests.
I think there's a tendency people have, especially prevalent on Hacker News, to do something unusual and cool, and then assume everyone else isn't doing it because they're stupid/conformist/etc. It's great to do something off the beaten path, but don't go that extra step and start making assumptions about people.
I'll also add that in the past, I've lived in some poor neighborhoods, and even very poor people who certainly aren't in any "cult of prosperity" in the US usually have refrigerators. I think this has more to do with the cost savings associated with buying bulk food than to do with any "cult of prosperity".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agricultur...
Because where I live, food gets spoiled in hours without refrigeration and living without cold water/beverages/ice seems downright tortuous.
Also to keep salad and vegetables longer fresh.
Can you describe in more detail how you are coming around of this?
These sorts of strange delusional comments, followed up by a claim that they can’t understand normal perspectives on things like “what would you do with a fridge”, are surprisingly common on HN. I have no idea what sort of thinking goes into a comment like this, but I suspect it’s sort of role play where they imagine the world would be such a great place if only everybody else also prescribed to their fringe view on fridges.
> conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.
Having a fridge is entirely normal, and to claim otherwise would require quite an extraordinary justification.
If you wanted to question whether people really need them, that would be a much more reasonable line of inquiry. But for anybody posting here to claim that they cannot understand why people would want to have one is frankly not believable.
Where did I say that?
Probably most people do not need that thing, too.
It seems to be a cult object of prosperity.
It just happened a few years ago while travelling a lot (by train), but then I found that idea interesting and never bought one, just to see if I "can do it" without.
After a few years I do not even know what I would store in a refrigerator.
Yes, of course, I am living in a city, with everything I need in markets around me, but it really just takes a little bit of planning and thinking to not need that thing even in remote places, I did that, it worked.