For that price, it has a really, really bad surface. You can see the marks of the rotating tools.
tal@lemmy.today 5 days ago
$90, which makes it one of the most expensive keycaps I think I’ve ever covered on this site.
www.etsy.com/…/gold-greenman-14k-solid-gold-with?…
Gold Greenman - 14K Solid Gold with Genuine Emerald Gemstone Eyes / Keycap Worthy of Royalty 585 Golden / Artefact for Mechanical Keyboard
$4,837.37
glasratz@feddit.org 2 days ago
eyelevel@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wealth inequality makes me so sad sometimes.
Like I don’t have any objection to people wanting to have good experiences in life, or sometimes buy some quality item that they might really like. But then I see shit like this $5000 keycap or a $15000 action figure or some other ridiculously overpriced dumb thing and I think whoever is buying this is probably just bored. They probably just have more money than they know what to do with, and maybe they think that automatically more expensive means better, and so they just throw their money away on these superficial hollow objects.
And obviously $5000 isn’t going to solve homelessness or end world hunger, but if you are in the position to throw $5000 away on some dumb decoration that literally not even one other person will ever look at or care about, then you probably do have the resources that you could be doing something else with that money if you wanted to.
But instead, it seems that basically all of us are caught in an endless cycle of vapid consumerism, and while most of us are trying to survive, a bunch of other people just don’t really care, and meanwhile the world is literally burning down around us.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
It doesn’t even look good. I understand throwing 5 grands at a really nice piece of craftsmanship made with expensive materials but at this price it better look amazing
glasratz@feddit.org 2 days ago
Yeah, when you look at it, it’s not very good craftsmanship. You can see the traces of the rotating tools. Since it doesn’t look bad overall, that’s a sign of someone not really putting a lot of effort in it. The creator could, but didn’t really want to.