Chocolate.
Proper chocolate, not the shit that Cadbury turn out since it was bought by the cheese people.
No wonder they lost their royal warrant. That's the first thing that Charlie has done since the Prince's Trust that has really impressed me.
That's super interesting, I actually like him a bit now because of that
Clean and well-tasting tap water. It sucks when I'm going to another country and they have chlorinated tap water
Electricity.
If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
Hot water
Running water (if you have a well)
Air conditioning
Indoor heat
Television
Internet
Indoor lighting
And hot meals if you don't have gas.
Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we've become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.
it sounds like a necessity
It's a utility and so I agree it's a necessity. A luxury would be some of the things electricity allows like Internet.
The Internet access should be classified as a utility but good luck getting ISPs to stop lobbying against that
Air conditioning. Near the coast in Texas it's more or less a lifesaver.
All 3 are things that are reasonably likely to have troublesome accessibility in my lifetime.
oh
a/c
yep that's the one
I think AC will be the most reliable if home solar takes off. The other two though...
Spices. Very much spices. If I was limited to like 5 good ones I'd make do but I have a drawer with like 50 spices in it I use regularly and it's my happy place.
Hot showers and a bidet.
We just finished a big holiday trip, 2 weeks visiting both sides of the family. Stayed with one family and then the other. After that....yeah...seriously considering getting everyone bidets next year for Christmas...
Music, without a doubt. Specifically, being able to choose particular songs to listen to. I'd get pretty miserable after a few days.
Toilet paper.
(I'd argue that's more a necessity but) Bidet plus a a toilet rag covered in the stains from your previous toilet rag adventures?
Coffee. Can't even stop drinking it when I'm sick bc I feel like ten times worse.
I gave up caffeine a few years ago and I was really surprised by how easy it was and how little I missed it.
Maybe it's different for me but caffeine ended up being much more of a habit rather than something I thought I needed.
Housing. (Again)
Literally, depending on where you draw a line between luxury and important but not mandatory for most people, it's air conditioning. We have three people in this household that do very poorly once heat and humidity starts to climb, including myself. Plus, uncontrolled humidity in the south ruins things, so there's an increase in costs associated with whatever decrease in power usage would save. For us, AC is right on the edge of being a necessity, as in a medical thing.
But in a more literal luxury that serves only pleasure or want, chocolate. No nutritional necessity, and it isn't like we all can't do without it. But gods damn, it would hurt. A nice piece of good quality dark chocolate is the ultimate mini reward for me. Do something incredibly painful and time consuming, that bit of chocolate is enough to turn it from something that I'm weeping in pain trying to finish into something I'm able to get through before I break down. That's a luxury, but fuck me if it isn't something I lean on heavily as a crutch. I really don't know what I would use to coax myself through really bad days where I'm barely functional but still have to function.
Clean water on demand
Likewise, flushing the toilet and the shit disappears.
Break me? No. Really depress my mood? Probably no longer having Plex and my media collection. If my hard drives and back-ups all spontaneously combusted right after a trade war drove their prices through the roof x5 or something and I couldn't afford to replace (and/or couldn't find any to replace because of shortages) I would be quite sad. Additionally I've worked quite hard to curate my collection so losing it entirely in the first place would be depressing because of the amount of work required to rebuild it, encoding, scraping hard to scrape rarities, setting the posters just the way I like them, etc.
Caffeine
I'd be broken for a little while but tbh I think I'd be better off in the long run
Soap and clean water
Private space. I used to share one room with my siblings. It was alright as a child, but I don't want to go back. And I know that many families around the world have very little space for two, three or four generations living under a roof.
While I am trying to use the internet less since the past 2 years or so, I will freak out if it ceases to exist completely.
Indoor plumbing and summer time AC
A/C
High-quality food. For me, food is one of the main sources of enjoyment, and if instead I'll have to shove something down my throat just to satisfy hunger, I'll get very depressed very quickly.
I don't know, maybe oxygen.
How does oxygen fit the definition of luxury?
Though that's not really the point of your post is it? What you did was read and understand OP correctly but then thought, "won't it be so hilarious if I make a joke and answered with something that you LITERALLY can't live with out, instead of contributing to the discussion!?!?! Hahaha delightfully devilish, professorozone!"
That your comment is upvoted is disappointing. It's Reddit tier crap.
Yeah, that's exactly right. But also you missed the subtle undertones of how things are going so dystopian that soon oxygen may actually become a luxury.
Not sure why that upsets you so much. Just sit on the floor, cross your legs Indian-style if you like and take in three big breaths of air. Wooosha. Wooosha. Wooosha. Like that. You'll like it. There's oxygen in the air. Kind of like a luxury.
that picture exactly
Biggest one would be AC, followed by cheap electricity, and internet. Maybe frequent sex too. To quote that recent Mengzi post 食色性也
Contact lenses. I know I could use my glasses, but I put them down and can't find them half the time. I am blind enough to be absolutely useless in most situations without corrective lenses.
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