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Just like nowadays.

There's a famous columnist-wannabe-politician in my country. A part of one of his columns stuck with me. It was along the following lines:

> Just think what would happen if people stopped caring about saving for the latest iPhone. And got into philosophical debates instead. What a terrible world would that be.

Looking at context, it was 100% not sarcasm.




Having trouble understanding the context in which this is not sarcasm. Would you mind linking the column if possible?


Depends on how you interpret the “stop saving” part of the phrase. If it’s just for an iPhone sure, it’s definitely sarcasm. If it’s a comment about not saving money at all and just scraping by enough to sustain and argue philosophy, then there are a lot of people that would agree with the non-sarcastic take.

The phrase would have been better replacing “saving for” with “coveting” or something that better disambiguates a statement against materialism from one supporting selfish financial recklessness.


It was the later. I linked the article in a comment in adjacent comment if you're interested.

Good tip on saving for vs coveting.


The column is in Lithuanian. Hopefully deepl or google translate does good enough job.

The title translates to „The world, which doesn't need a newer iPhone, is destined for wars and genocide“

https://www.delfi.lt/news/ringas/lit/romas-sadauskas-kvietke...




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