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  • the whole reason the world is in this state is because of the 100+ bottles of wine and lobster

    people are living outside their means

    There are two separate issues here I think.

    I agree that aspirational spending has a lot to answer for, particularly if you overstretch yourself in the process. But who decides what is an acceptable amount to spend on lunch? Is £50 too much? £10?

    If our benchmark is whether someone can afford what they're buying and the guy eating the lobster can afford it then surely we shouldn't have a problem with him ordering whatever he wants. Or is it the sheer extravagance that bothers us? I could have eaten 20 pence-worth of plain rice for dinner last night, but I paid £7 for a burger instead. That would seem pretty extravagant to someone who's living on rice.

    It's all relative, innit..?

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