why not luxury?

I really had a very bad impression about living a luxurious life and luxury. Why people spent/waste this much money while the poor struggle to meet the ends.
But now it has changed. I mean my impression about luxury.
Luxury is extra-ordinary. If ordinary, it’s no more luxury! And it is different for different class of people.
There is a shop called coffee café @ Ernakulam where you have to pay Rs.100/-(may be 150/-right now) for a black coffee. The place is really great and I ‘wanted’ to go there some time. Luxury comes with expense, very much. The things which we cannot afford are actually ‘expensive’. So a coffee @ coffee café seems very ‘expensive’ for me.given Rs.100/- I would like to go an ordinary restaurant and manage one full day with this 100 rupees. For a person who is earning a 5-digit salary and willing to spent, its not that ‘expensive’. It is not a big thing for her/him.
A black coffee will cost only (at most) Rs.5/- in ordinary restaurants and why people pay Rs.95/- extra? For comfort, high class services (and it has something do with) social ‘status’, which you cannot get by buying a Rs.5/- coffee.
What I think now is ‘luxury’ of these people is a better way to let the money flow. In this case of a coffee the 100 rupees get distributed to the owner, manager, government, waiter, cook, security, receptionist etc. actually the material cost may not exceed rs.20/- anyway. So 80% of the ‘luxury’ is getting distributed. Isnt it a good thing?
No one really likes to give away money for nothing. (I mean, to have a Rs.5 coffee and giving Rs. 95/- to some poor). So this is a better way.
Now, the very luxurious weddings: these wedding invitation card costs Rs.1000/-. Of course the money is getting distributed, but what about the wastage of resources? {Unnecessary} I mean electricity, water, food. Do anyone eat the whole thing she/he gets served? Ok, at least 75%? Once I told my friend not to waste food…there are thousands of people who dream about this much food …etcetera…you wanna know her reply? She told me ‘what does it matter to them if I waste this or not. They are not able to buy it because they have no money. So this has got nothing to do with this.’ Isn’t she right? {.}
Some people use only branded items. May be they are so much concerned about the quality. Once I went for shopping with my friend. She bought a shirt for her brother which costs about Rs.1500/-. I was really surprised! He wears only ‘basics’ shirt! Is there much difference in quality of stitching/cloth with ordinary ones? After all, it has its own purpose. Anyway, the money is getting distributed!
Wear Basics shirts, Live In jeans, lakme lotions, Revlon lipsticks; go to beauty parlors every month and dine @ multi cuisine restaurants…and let the money flow!
So spend more and live in luxury!
---there is something missing ---
Cheers,
Tressy.

3 comments:

VIPIN said...

" They are not able to buy it because they have no money. So this has got nothing to do with this.’ Isn’t she right?"

She is absaloutely wrong...if tats the attitude of all privileged people...lot of food gets wasted and they are able to consume more bcos dey r rich..dis will create demand-supply mismatches which makes the price high and food bcomes unaffordable to the poor...

so even a careless act like that can ripple through and can affect others..

if your concept of luxury includes wastage of food also..I wont support you...but otherwise I support you..

Tressy said...

do u think i support that???
i now she is wrong n i said that too.

muralee said...

Its the theory of incentives which comes handy here...incentives cud be tangible/intangible...which means i pay for ambience which is intangible and short lived.And i pay for the product(the coffee) which is tangible.But is ambience intangible?
My next question is....
Is life itself intangible/tangible?what is a human being...a collection of thoughts, relationships?If you say the body is tangible...i can ask whther the body is the person??Whole life is only an experience na?so why not pay for ambience???:)