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Re:I am thinking of returning my Apple Watch by dionidium on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:02PM (#9507875)
At $500, even for someone on minimum wage it's not even 1 month wage after taxes. You have to get a pretty fancy one before it starts getting expensive.

This betrays a misunderstanding of how disposable income works. For monthly wages below some n (where is n is determined by the cost of living in your city), a person's disposable income is effectively $0. In other words, someone making $1200/month doesn't have twice as much disposable income as somebody making $0/month. They both have zero disposable income.

Re:I am thinking of returning my Apple Watch by ebbv on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:08PM (#9507907)
Dude. I'm not saying they have disposable income. We were just comparing the price vs. average person's monthly income. C'mon. Reading comprehension.
Re:I am thinking of returning my Apple Watch by dionidium on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:15PM (#9507945)
What could "before it starts getting expensive" possibly mean other than how I interpreted it?
Re:I am thinking of returning my Apple Watch by ebbv on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:55PM (#9508247)
For a watch, $500 is not that expensive. $10,000 definitely is. Somewhere in-between there probably is too.

There's a lot of not expensive things that people on minimum wage can't afford because it's not a living wage.