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
it 100% is. in my smoke-weed-everyday mid 20s, I became very-anti consumerist and decided to start limiting the items on my person as much as I could. I started thinking that keeping all that shit on me or adding new shit was reducing my agency, weighing me down with stuff to keep track of/worry about losing.
no more watch, remove extraneous keys, empty wallet of everything but what I legit might need (no more business cards, receipts, notes, old IDs/member cards, etc.
at one point I was working at a rural school with no cell coverage, a mess hall that I lived at, and I was down to just carrying a comfy shoulder bag with a big water bottle and key ring that had a tiny knife on it and a bottle opener. it was awesome.
prior to that shift in priorities, I was probably totally moving in the direction of being some EDC guy, but I'm sure it was driven by some creeping tacticool dude marketing shit.