This is a group of predominantly young computer-people.  They are not going to be wise to depreciation or the effects of old age.<p>If I buy a new video card, when I open the box its resale value instantly drops perhaps 50% of its price, and in perhaps two years its resale value is &quot;you&#x27;re gonna have to pay me to recycle that for you...&quot;.  Money spent on computer hardware in 1981 dropped in value to $0 if not less by, perhaps, 1983.  The experience is worthless, or negative worth, on your resume (trust me on that one)  If you&#x27;re a computer-person, money spent is money wasted, in the long run.<p>28 years ago I got a nice full set of fractional&#x2F;number&#x2F;letter drills in a Huot case.  Instantly when I opened the package its value dropped from whatever it was sold for, to $10 at a garage sale.  I get 28 years of use out of it, some are getting a little shorter from resharpening or have been replaced, and I could still get $10 at a garage sale.  If I sold my drill bits to raise $10 today, I&#x27;d just have to rebuy them again in a month or two at full list price and eat the substantial depreciation a second time.  Its not like my world is going to run out of things to make holes thru.  I&#x27;m not wealthy enough to buy the same tools over and over; likewise I&#x27;m not wealthy enough to buy cheap tools that fall apart such that I have to buy them over and over.  I&#x27;m not wealthy enough to rent things I use on a regular basis.  Actually I am wealthy enough now, but character traits like this are exactly the cause of why I&#x27;m wealthy enough now.  Minimization of total overall lifetime system cost.  Nobody ever got rich by spending more money than is necessary.<p>Now multiply the set of drill bits by every other capital good &#x2F; tool I own, and in some capital intensive hobbies it adds up.  And there&#x27;s really nothing wrong with that.  That&#x27;s how you end up with (old) carpenters having $30K shops like my accountant neighbor, or (old) bakers with $1K of gear, (old) ham radio operators with $10K radio stations... At least with some hobbies, not making dumb decisions adds up over time.