(I might make a zine out of this post.)
Its Prime day season in Singapore now. Maybe they should update it to Prime week, because it lasts so long. Just in case I come to a time where I forget what it means, Prime day is when Amazon dropped a bunch of prices for items, and you can buy it cheap. Or something like that.
I’ve been thinking hard about this: what’s the point of a manufacturer selling things at a full price when the majority of people buy things at sale pricing? And everyone usually just waits for sales before they make their purchases, so is there really anything to gain?
The subsequent question is : What’s the point of making something, if everyone’s just going to want it cheap, and then compare it to a big company who can make things cheaper and position themselves with higher prices because of their brand value? I do stand with creatives and creating things, but to approach something for sale on days like Prime Day, it’s just hard to make a good profit from it. Or at least something that would produce a lot of income.
But the real question I want to ask is: what’s the point of making more stuff when the world is actually quite full already? I say this with a ton of things on my table right now, and I know I am an overconsumer. But is this because I’ve been encouraged to just keep getting more, throughout my whole life. It’s just relentlessly getting more, alternatives and options, and backups, replacements, and redundancies, and it’s just too much.
I’ve been thinking about it this way: What am I leave Allison to sift through when I’m dead? Is it my collection of vinyls and books, or my journals through the years? Because as of last night, it was a large number of unused books, and artworks for work and I could very well do without them. I want to keep memories, and to leave memories for Allison to know me better. The trips we took, and the impact it had on me each trip. The things I’ve learnt and want her to know about for her own life too. These are the things I want to leave for her.
Not a spare pair of shoes, not yet at least.
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