>>2287512It makes me seethe because the benefits are so incremental, but the mark-up is so high, leading me to the conclusion that ultralight is 90% an industry meme just like any other industry; for instance in cycling, you have €2000 carbon bike frames that save 300g (a few sips of water) over aluminium, titanium or steel which will last years if not decades past the carbon and take much more of a beating, to all the gay minor tweaks pushed to encourage you to get the latest and greatest (you NEED aero tubes on your frame goy) when most people who buy them aren't competing and have perfectly good options for a fraction of the price.
Of course, I'm also benefiting - when consumerist ultrafags decide to upgrade to Pertex Super Quantum 7D micro fabric, I buy their old and perfectly great (just unfashionable / 5% heavier), more durable gear for a fraction of the price.
While ultrafags buy things that disintegrate to save a few ounces and line the pockets of outdoors companies, I sacrifice 200g here and there to have gear that can go to cool places and do cool shit and doesn't need babying, and while they spend their hard earned cash on trendy featherweight disposable fashion bling, I snap up deals and end up being able to spend thousands on cool shit like plane tickets, hunting passes, diverse gear choices (you'd have to be seriously rich to buy state of the art ultralight and disposable canoes, packrafts, camping gear, parasails, base jumping chutes, skis, climbing racks, etc).
And to put it in another angle - the time spent researching, customising and optimising your stupid disposable ultrascam gear is time that if you are as high earning as you claim ultralight consoomers are, could well have been spent earning and simply paying someone to optimise your gear. Gear that you will have to waste additional precious earning hours replacing when it fails because some (((outdoor company))) skimped on stitching to advertise 20g less weight to pea brained sois
