Our top ten luxuries (mostly unattained) while growing up (1970s) were-
1. Eating out in a restaurant
2. Flying
3. Owning a phone
4. Owning a car- or any personal transport
5. Traveling first class in a train
6. Owning a camera
7. Owning a 2-in-1 cassette player and radio
8. Going to a foreign country
9. Going to stay in a 5 star hotel
10. Having friends in different countries
Today, I don't really know what could qualify. A BMW, Rolls Royce? An Armani suit? I was reading about a guy who experimented with living on 32 rupees (about 60 cents) a day because that is our definition of poverty. At that earning level, three meals a day might constitute luxury.
1. Eating out in a restaurant
2. Flying
3. Owning a phone
4. Owning a car- or any personal transport
5. Traveling first class in a train
6. Owning a camera
7. Owning a 2-in-1 cassette player and radio
8. Going to a foreign country
9. Going to stay in a 5 star hotel
10. Having friends in different countries
Today, I don't really know what could qualify. A BMW, Rolls Royce? An Armani suit? I was reading about a guy who experimented with living on 32 rupees (about 60 cents) a day because that is our definition of poverty. At that earning level, three meals a day might constitute luxury.
5 comments:
Goggles were another luxury I think.
The one constant of luxury is having servants (cooks, chauffeurs et al) to serve at your beck and call.
Luxury then - owning products assembled in the USA;
Now - owning products assembled in China.
Was the 'then' luxuries because of the cost of the products or because of the simple living mentality?
Have we lost the simple living life style and luxuries have become necessaries?
Food for thought and interesting.
Sowmya, I think partly because these were not experienced at all. I can tell from later experience that some of these are not so luxurious after all!
What you say may also be true. We become jaded and want 'new' luxuries!
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