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Last night I had a thought about luxury.  To me luxury seems to be pretty subjective.  Ex. fancy consumer goods    However, this soon fades as soon as capitalism makes this luxuries accessable to the masses.  Luxury is pretty exclusive.  However, I do think a luxury that remains pretty constant is time-  time spent doing exactly what you want to do.  There can not be any more or less of this available, except for perhaps by living longer.  But I am talking about just in one day.  So, it is my thought that you are rich, not in a subjective way, but in a non-subjective sence when you are doing exactly what you want.  This also means that if you have a lot of stuff or whatever and you are not doing what you want, you are not enjoying any luxury.

Luxury good is a high-cost good that is not an essential good. That's pretty objective - at least the category.

We may not precisely delineate where essential ends and luxury begins, but its a common - and theoretically unsolvable - boundary problem. Good examples of such problems are adult/child, night/day - arbitrary boundaries but quite distinct concepts.

that wasn't really what i was talking about.

At least i dont think it was.

david kopp:

So, it is my thought that you are rich, not in a subjective way, but in a non-subjective sence when you are doing exactly what you want.

this is completely arbitrary...

Mike:

arbitrary boundaries but quite distinct concepts.