Comment by RandomBacon
3 hours ago
> "I buy more $10,000 cardigans than you buy Hanes undershirts" is kinda the definition of bragging.
Except that's not what they wrote / how they framed it.
Perhaps that's just how you perceived it. I think that speaks more about you, than it does about them.
You can construct a philosophical argument that value is all relative without having to casually drop anecdata demonstrating that you personally spend many hundreds of times more on an everyday object than is typical without consideration.
Simmel managed it ok. [1]
[1] https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/Simmel/Simmel_1900.html