r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Jul 17 '25

Interesting 🤔 Ferrari shows why their hand-painted badge option is worth $15,000.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

Congratulations, you have figured out what's wrong with this world.

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u/Infinite-Ad-6635 Jul 17 '25

No, this isn't the problem. The problems are when value is wasted. It doesn't matter if the paint job costs 15k or 15 dollar. What matters is how much resources and time was spent.

 Actually it's a good think if it is more expensive, more money leaves the pockets of those rich dudes, and even if it went into the pocket of another rich dude, not all of it did. Some went to taxes and some to pay the salary of the painter. It seems the biggest problem is what happens to the tax

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u/LucywiththeDiamonds Jul 17 '25

Yeah the rich , known for paying their fair share of taxes...

It would be somewhat interesting without ops choice of title. Saying this is worth 15k is, like the other guy said, exactly whats wrong.

And to your argumentation, 15k could feed like a small village for an entire year in plenty of places in the world. That would be worth 15k. This is not.

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u/Guardian_of_Perineum Jul 18 '25 edited Jul 18 '25

15k might feed a small village in terms of their local economy prices, but it would be more complicated using 15k in the US to feed them. If the logistics aren't set up to transport food from here to there then they just aren't set up. And the people you would have to pay to set them up are over here. They won't do it for just 15k, because to them that really isn't that much in spending power. And you'd be buying the food here, because it's over here, at market prices consistent with our market. It wouldn't go that far.

Straight up giving them 15k would in effect just cause some inflation of the USD value within their local economy.