For $100,000 I believe I could find a barber who would stop by my house, before and after work, to give me a shave every day for the next 10 years.
But would his razor be made of sapphire?
Heh…it’s a Zafirro Iridium Face Modulator!
You mean onto my platinum coated shower with the diamond encrusted faucets pouring water piped directly from Alpine glaciers?
My shower floor is lined with baby seals, thank you very much.
Looking at the “Terms and Conditions” clause, they state that it can take six to ten weeks before you receive your order. So it’s not exactly stocked on the shelves. If they really wanted to impress me they would have used a diamond blade rather than a sapphire. I’m presuming, of course, diamonds are more wear-resistant.
Pet peeve: so this is the “artisan economy” Thomas Friedman is talking about?
That’s probably not a credit thing. It’s just that if you’ll spend $100,000 on a razor, they have a few other items they’d like to introduce to you.
Warranty on the razor is void unless you buy their special shaving cream at $10K/ounce.
Umm, isn’t a razor designed for shaving humans a form of biotech? :dubious:
Directly? Plebian.
Every molecule of my Alpine water is hand polished by nubian slaves prior to being carefully placed by a team of coat-tailed butlers in my private water tank.
Would we actually be able to see something 5000 times thinner than a human hair?
How would you use ten Honda Civics more than a Ferrari? Surely one is enough. Maybe a second for when the first is being repaired. The other eight? Get the Ferrari instead. It’ll be more fun.
Think of it this way: figure out how much you spend every six months for shaving materials (razor and blades.) Compare that to your annual income.
Let’s say some guy spends $15 a month on shaving materials and his annual (gross) income is $90,000. These are numbers pulled out of a hat, so they’re probably not realistic.
90,000 / 15 = 6000 (the proportion between annual salary and razor cost.)
If I take the $100,000 price tag and multiply it by 6000, I get $600,000,000. Anybody that makes $600 million a year (gross) would be spending the same amount to shave as the first guy, in proportion. And that’s with assuming that the $100,000 razor only lasts a month. Is that razor a “forever” razor? Or do you have to replace the blades periodically?
That would be the target market.
You could pay someone to come to your house every day to shave you, but what happens when you’re not at home? Or when you decide to sleep in and wake up at 12? Or when you decide on a quick shave to get rid of the 5 o’clock shadow before going to the opera? Your barber would have to be constantly on call and following you around 24x7 to match the convenience of the razor sitting in your bathroom medicine cabinet.
But…where’s the face-shattering kaboom? There’s no face-shattering kaboom!
Hoax.