Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- He highlights how language and perspective flip depending on whether we own an object or dislike what someone else owns.
- In plain terms
- We call our things valuable and others' things trash.
- What can you take from it?
- Ownership changes how we describe objects.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do we call things shit?
- Who decides what is stuff?
Another view
Some items are objectively valuable or useless.
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