Personally I had way too many quality issues at that price range. An earbud would be randomly quieter than the other, the battery of an earbud would die, the Bluetooth would suck, or they would be unusable for phone calls. I bought refurbished $100-something headphones for $70 and haven’t needed to buy any more since.
There’s a famous example of the poverty trap that uses boots that fall apart every season vs quality boots that last, and I think there is a quality level that is so bad it’s more expensive in the long run. So I do buy shoes that cost money. But I’m not buying fashion shoes or luxury brand shoes which I think is what you’re saying too.
This comment did not go where I thought it was going but very interesting. You’re clearly making the right call for your personal finances.
I assumed you were going to say something about like expensive composting equipment or aluminum straws.
That ‘immigration is bad’ would actually be the vastly more common incorrect belief.
From context clues it seems like they were hosted on Lemmy which is why they are now limiting image hosting.