The Croissant Paradox

All these things look so great and valuable. Well, that is as long as you can almost afford them. Once you can afford them with ease, they are less appealing. And when you’re completely broke, you also notice their imperfections. You notice how cheap the plastic is. How pointless these shapes and lines are.

It’s beyond you why there are 20 different types of croissants. If you can buy 50, you look for one simple croissant. And if you can’t even buy one, you wonder about that one simple, slightly burnt croissant.

Basically, to value all these things, you need to be less broke than the destitute but more broke than the wealthy. Otherwise, you’re out of the zone of appeal. It’s as if all this nonsense is made for that demographic. What’s it called? Middle class? Or is working class and upper middle class included?

I’m sure the mass wealthy are part of this appeal. But perhaps the destitute and the wealthy value nothing? One because they have nothing, and one because they have everything.

The destitute longs for the black coffee, and so does the wealthy. The destitute longs for just cash, and so does the wealthy. All this while the middle class is stuck between crypto, stocks, commodities, instruments that are so many, confusing, and appealing. Instant transfers, instant points, and the appeal.

The destitute cares not how fast the transfer comes and would piss on crypto, while the wealthy sees no appeal in instant transfers either, for money is money today or tomorrow. Coffee shops not frequented by the destitute and not by the wealthy.

An almost full circle where the destitute and the wealthy are closer and have more in common with each other. For the destitute might one day become wealthy, and the wealthy destitute, but the middle class will always be the middle class. Or will they?