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Roundup: $1000 bagels and $25000 chocolate sundaes
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How about a $100 bagel at the Westin Hotel in Times Square? Or a $25,000 chocolate sundae called the Frrozen Haute Chocolate at Serendipity 3? Yeah… that’s pretty ridiculous huh? I guess if you would even consider getting a chocolate sundae worth as much as a good car, you probably don’t care about the price. It’s it amazing how much excess there is in the world?
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$100 bagel is nothing if a sundae cost $25,000 so everything is just relative. $25,000 might be a lot of money for us (like you said, we can buy a car) but people who buy $25,000 sundaes definitely do not buy $25,000 cars. People that wealthy buy $1 million dollar cars.
If I really like the $25,000 sundae and I can very comfortably afford it, does it really matter?