[jermaustin1]

Overspending on your tools is a misallocation of resources. An annual $22k spend on computing is around 10-20x over spend for a wealthy individual. I'm in the $200-300k/year, self-employed, buys-my-own-shit camp, and I can't imagine spending 1% of my income on computing needs, let alone close to 10%. There is no way to make that make sense.

[sneak]

It’s not $22k/year, as the hardware still has great resale value when it’s replaced in 14-18 months.

It’s less than $8-10k/year when all is said and done.

I pay more for my car+insurance.

[jcalvinowens]

Look at it a different way: if you'd invested that $10K/year you've been blowing on hardware, how much more money would you have today? How about that $800/month car payment too?

[sneak]

I don’t understand a world where spending $1k/mo on business equipment that is used to earn dozens of times more than that is crazy. It’s barely more than my minuscule office space costs.

My insurance is the vast majority of that $800, fwiw.

[jcalvinowens]

Having a 10% faster laptop does not enhance your ability to earn money in any meaningful way. Just like driving around in a luxury car doesn't enhance your ability to travel from point A to point B in any meaningful way.

It's okay to like spending money on nice things, it's your money and you get to decide what matters to you. What you're getting hate for here is claiming it's justified in some way.