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

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      yeah but thats actually useful and has a purpose, and it sounds like you actually use it. I was moreso talking about the tacticool operator bulletproof kevlar steel capped composite military grade death assassin carbon graded Wallet-kinda shit you see on there a lot.

      I got nothing against the concept of edc, I have stuff I carry with me everyday but thats probably more just because of my work. I just found it weird that these people will drop a bunch of money and a) never use these tools and b) purposefully pick the tools that are more expensive but not more useful