That's very much country dependent. I live in a country where anyone middle class has a house keeper either from Phillipine or Indonesia (cost about 10-15k usd a year if you're not an asshole and don't pay the lowest possible salary). That housekeeper's work is to take care of the children and do the housework. Upper middle class people have two. Then the next level up is to also have a private driver.

Governor/Governess is after that, I know two people who do it, they hired someone directly from UK for about 45k usd a year. That person takes care of their child and helps with education/homework etc.. Main advantage compared to the housekeeper is that the governor is more educated and so will be able to actually teach things to the child. But it's not necessarily super common and I know plenty of rich parents who decided not to do that and instead invest more heavily on tuition/activities and later (starting from 9-10 years old) summer camps at Oxford, Cambridge, John Hopkins, etc...

Birkin bags are also actually better products for more money, they can last quite a while with minimum care. They are display goods for sure but there is a qualitative difference between a good quality handbag from certain brands and a much cheaper one.

Just as an example, my wife's only handbag is a balenciaga bag that she's had for 12+ years, she's been using it to carry back food from restaurants, put anything she needs in it, etc... and it's still in good shape. In the end, her bag has cost her so far 60 usd/year.

So yes, it's not obvious to people not in the know but even products that seem to be display luxury category can actually be worth it from a quality perspective.

The oven is mediocre at best, my Annova Precision Oven is much much better, much better control of temperature, heats up much faster, has more features, infinitely cheaper.

The range hood needs to be repaired because it makes a lot of noise. Repair of Miele appliances are super expensive.

The only appliance I'm impressed with is the wine cave but that's a white labeled Liebherr

- https://ko-fi.com/post/Childrens-picture-book-1--Sheep-Villa...

- https://ko-fi.com/post/Childrens-book-2--Guardians-of-the-Sh...

- https://ko-fi.com/post/Childrens-book-3--The-Twelve-Warriors...

I haven't found the original version in Chinese.

With and ad blocker, the new url is better formatted but man, the number of ads if you disable the ad blocker...

Of course, pure speculation, but this way of writing reminds me of what I've heard in the past from people in cults.

Of course, that's just my experience but I do have a feeling that certain type of people feel that there's more innovation around coffee and chance encounter because it's a nice story to tell oneself but it doesn't really happen.