Inspired by an argument about ticket scalping

[feotakahari]

The idea that spending more money on something means you want it more seems to imply rich people are utility monsters. I mean, if there’s only enough food for one person, a rich person will spend more money to acquire that food than a poor person would be capable of spending. If there’s only one available house, the rich person will outbid the poor person on that house. Any good you posit, the rich person will “want” it more, so you’re effectively assuming that rich people have deep and boundless desires and poor people have no real desires at all.