A friend of mine sent me a post on there and I started to look through the subreddit because I vaguely remember seeing it years ago, but never checking it out. I really just dont get it though.

Half of the posts are:

"im a rich STEM student and here is my edc: Glock, 10 knives, flashlight, unused multitool, navy seal operator wallet, and a nanotech fuckite steel carbon bulletproof backed phone case. also a tacticool watch that costs my entire semester tuition"

and the other half are:

"here is what I edc at my boring office job: my pistol with 30 different attachments on it (including 10 different lasers and quick reload magazines), knife, bigger knife, smaller knife, tactical notepad with speed release stainless steel pen, flashlight with a hidden knife in the bottom of it, and an unopened tin of Copenhagens that expired 2 years ago"

I genuinely dont understand, at most these people will only ever use their overpriced flashlight. Are they trying to brand themselves or make themselves more masculine or something? What am I not getting?

is it a blue collar vs white collar thing? I genuinely cant imagine dropping hundreds on tools that you will never use

  • ConstipationNation [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yea spending tons of money on fancy tools in general is pretty dumb, because if you actually use them for anything they're bound to either break or get really worn and look like shit after a while. When I was younger I thought it would be a good idea to drop $120 on a nice Buck pocket knife, and then when I started working in construction I ended up using a cheap pocket knife for work and leaving the Buck at home cause I didn't want it to get ruined after I spent so much money on it.