Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer

Re:Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer by 908B64B197 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @12:01PM (#25583357)

> even if they spend $10/day on fancy ones or the equivalent per year on owning and maintaining a fancy machine (and few people will do either).

Assuming the machine's lifespan is 5 years (and that's a very short time for an espresso machine) you are looking at 18K over 5 years at 10$/day.

That's high traffic commercial espresso machine (La Marzocco) territory.

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Re:Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer by onecommentman on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:42PM (#25589348)

Given the salvage value of the espresso machine after five years, you are in personal shared valet territory. (It’s Uber, but for baristas!)

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Re:Lifestyle Inflation. It's a wealth killer by ben_w on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:09PM (#25584861)

I’m aware; I chose this as a deliberately extreme example of why coffee expenses aren’t worth optimising.

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