[necovek]

It is still exactly the same iPhone tech-wise, just with a custom "case".

I wouldn't go as far to call it "brain disease" though: in a sense, it is OK for someone well off to spend on expensive products (made by less rich), so things would equalize at least a bit.

Just like we in IT might happily pay 3% of our salary on slightly better shoes, and someone else would claim we have a "brain disease" because you can get perfectly good shoes for 5x less money.

[relaxing]

That iphone is not 5x more.

Furthermore, who in IT is paying 3% on shoes? Even if you’re the hypebeast buying $1200 Balenciagas, I don’t see how the math works out.

[necovek]

That iPhone is 15x more (I don't know the exact price, sorry)? Same order of magnitude.

3% of your monthly salary for $200-$500 shoes (I see plenty amateur runners getting carbon sole shoes in this price range, for instance), when you could get a pair for less than $50.

[relaxing]

Ok I don’t know who’s running around talking about their monthly compensation or what that has to do with billionaires but sure, I see your math now.

[necovek]

Thanks you for adding a slight to your "understanding" statement. You can try figuring out the point I was making (wealth is relative, even "commoners" like us overspend from someone else's perspective).

I would say most of Europe talks and thinks in monthly (and even net after-tax salary), so hopefully that helps in the future when someone does not adapt to US gross annual salary figures for you.