Well.. clearly the professor is not a watch enthusiast and don't understand how the watch industry work.
Nobody wears a mechanical watch for function. Its all about prestige, art and the history behind the watches first, function second.
I would argue that expensive watches also help people in Switzerland and Germany keep their jobs. Immoral ? Hardly.
What would be immoral is getting the money from corruption or bribes.
We can adapt that judgment to the man or woman who wears a $30,000 watch or buys similar luxury goods, like a $12,000 handbag. Essentially, such a person is saying; I am either extraordinarily ignorant, or just plain selfish. If I were not ignorant, I would know that children are dying from diarrhea or malaria, because they lack safe drinking water, or mosquito nets, and obviously what I have spent on this watch or handbag would have been enough to help several of them survive; but I care so little about them that I would rather spend my money on something that I wear for ostentation alone.
Of course, we all have our little indulgences. I am not arguing that every luxury is wrong. But to mock someone for having a sensible watch at a modest price puts pressure on others to join the quest for ever-greater extravagance. That pressure should be turned in the opposite direction, and we should celebrate those, like Sikorski, with modest tastes and higher priorities than conspicuous consumption.
I think you guys miss the objective of this article.
He is not saying that it is sinful to wear luxury watch.
However, when the watch cost more than the salary of the ministers.
The question is where does the money comes from ?
He is indirectly implying that the government is corrupted.
I think you guys miss the objective of this article.
He is not saying that it is sinful to wear luxury watch.
However, when the watch cost more than the salary of the ministers.
The question is where does the money comes from ?
He is indirectly implying that the government is corrupted.
Next time when you are invited to an official function in MBS just bring your own food from Lau Pa Sat.
Really ? He only mention it briefly in the first paragraph.. all other paragraphs are about watch and luxury goods bashing.
Officials are not born into their role, its possible that they were businessman, or come from wealthy families.
I think this prof is too narrow minded. He only knows about ethics and nothing else.
By his logic, we should only buy cheap Primark clothes made in Bangladesh.
And why the rich should pay millions of dollars for a Renoir or van Gogh when I'm selling my stick man drawing for $500 (cheap right?.. it comes with COA too :angel
it's like asking why buy a Leica?
really why do ppl spend so much on a Leica?
+1
Why buy leica when zeiss or even sigma is sharper? Leica glow? Marketing gimmick nia... no offence to any leica bros here, just a poor man's view
I think you guys miss the objective of this article.
He is not saying that it is sinful to wear luxury watch.
However, when the watch cost more than the salary of the ministers.
The question is where does the money comes from ?
He is indirectly implying that the government is corrupted.