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Ferret7446yesterday at 8:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Counterpoint: hoarding resources is an evolved, beneficial trait, at least in the past. Frugality is a very modern virtue


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hellon3wheelstoday at 3:04 AM

Hoarding can be at least somewhat motivated by frugality: you never know what you'll end up needing someday, and you don't need to spend money on new stuff if you kept an old one around... somewhere...

I've heard stories of people who developed the habit of keeping virtually everything out of living through the Great Depression.

If by frugality you mean something more along the lines of minimalism then I agree