tempermanent

You can just do this with your friends! Send long emails and establish an expectation of reply-at-your-convenience. It's a tricky norm to get started but once it does it's quite rewarding.

you don't need to spend 5K+ to do so

links to two five-thousand-dollar bikes

I made perhaps a rough comment earlier so I looked for somewhere to agree with you. Not only is Go quite an aesthetically pleasing language, but the description of the draw of Leica cameras could probably be swapped word-for-word with Macbook laptops.

severely deluded, or morally repugnant.

c'mon, man ... capitalism isn't as voluntary as you're suggesting. Are these really the only possibilities?