It is wiser to invest that money than to buy an iPhone.

[bubilas]

Getting the latest iPhone is just for short term happiness and satisfaction, while investing in bitcoin is already for long term approach, for our retirement, that even our future generation will eventually come to benefit. It’s a matter of satisfying your present desire than fulfilling your satisfaction in the future where financial independence and stability is a big part of it. So just do the math, and think where you can benefit the most, mentally, emotionally and financially.

Absolutely right, but almost all women don't care, they are ready for it, even if they will have to take out a loan for this iPhone later. In the country where I live, incomes are small and therefore girls are ready to pay for two years for an iPhone that they took out on borrowed money and I think that this is a very strange and ridiculous situation: to pay for something that will go out of fashion in a year, and the credit obligations will remain for another couple of years. This is ridiculous nonsense.

[Renampun]

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So we have to give up some temporary happiness to achieve something better in the future.

many people claim that they buy iphone for self reward, actually there is no problem with that because everyone is free to do what they want to do but sacrificing time and money for an item that depreciates every day is not a wise thing to do, it is stupidity.

now i prefer investment than buying luxury goods, the reason is simple because i no longer need validation from people out there, what i need is my bitcoin to keep increasing every month lol.

[suzanne5223]

After all the acknowledgment and recognition of the inclusion of support that Bitcoin has gotten from some governments, organizations, and individuals all over the world. I feel sorry for any member of this forum who did not invest in Bitcoin but chose to buy an iPhone which will be an old edition in the next few months footing the current price of BTC which is below the ATH price specifically now that people like Saylor keeps adding Bitcoin more to MicroStrategy bag none stop.

[Koadharber]

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So we have to give up some temporary happiness to achieve something better in the future.

many people claim that they buy iphone for self reward, actually there is no problem with that because everyone is free to do what they want to do but sacrificing time and money for an item that depreciates every day is not a wise thing to do, it is stupidity.

now i prefer investment than buying luxury goods, the reason is simple because i no longer need validation from people out there, what i need is my bitcoin to keep increasing every month lol.

There's nothing wrong on having that self reward and you do really that deserve it, specially if you have been long time saving up and sustaining all of those tough situations then buying up something for that hard work then its not really that bad at all. Just make it sure is that you wont really be that spending a huge amount or partition of your money. If its really that a huge amount that you do currently have then taking up some slice then its just really that fine but if its opposite then that should be a no go. You would be able to think about that there's so much important thing that you do need to prioritize on.

Investing while considering on buying an iPhone then its a no brainer on what are the things that you would really be needing up to prioritize. So it will really be that up to you on which one you would be choosing.
If you do want to save it for later then you can do but if you cant be able to wait then it will really be that up to you which one you would choose. You can see be able to make up some comparison in between decisions then you can make out point on which one is better.

[doomloop]

There's nothing wrong on having that self reward and you do really that deserve it, specially if you have been long time saving up and sustaining all of those tough situations then buying up something for that hard work then its not really that bad at all. Just make it sure is that you wont really be that spending a huge amount or partition of your money. If its really that a huge amount that you do currently have then taking up some slice then its just really that fine but if its opposite then that should be a no go. You would be able to think about that there's so much important thing that you do need to prioritize on.

Investing while considering on buying an iPhone then its a no brainer on what are the things that you would really be needing up to prioritize. So it will really be that up to you on which one you would be choosing.
If you do want to save it for later then you can do but if you cant be able to wait then it will really be that up to you which one you would choose. You can see be able to make up some comparison in between decisions then you can make out point on which one is better.

People would prefer to live a horrible life that has absolutely no taste for 30 years, just so they can grow up and be fine when they are older. They are not even realizing what they are trading, because they are losing 30 of their greatest years, and instead they are being cheap and having no fun so that they can be wealthy.

This isn't about an iPhone by the way, if you do not want to get one, then don't, it is not really a big deal, I don't have one because I never felt the need to spend that much on some phone, why would I, but that doesn't mean I invested every dime I make neither, I had a good life. Sure I am not rich thanks to that, but I had a good life with my loved ones and I am happy with that in most cases.

[STT]

One of my big regrets in the 90's was to buy a pc instead Microsoft shares, I could see the release of Win 1.0 and following versions would alter the world to the ordinary person as a magical box of tricks became a normal usable object.   I could have made do with educational provided pc and should have, so vs this iphone question its quite possible you should avoid a luxury product.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

We always think of doing something for long term but we regularly spend a lot of money for short term happiness. I am not saying this for those who have a lot of money, but for those who don't have that much money, there is no need to buy an iphone for around $1200 to $2000 right now. 

Maybe buying an iPhone will give that person temporary happiness but when a person spends that amount of money on investment without buying an iPhone, but in the future he will get a good amount of profit from this investment and it will be seen that he can buy more iPhones from the profit of that investment. But our brains think very little like this, we prioritize what we get in the short term or what happiness we get for the short term as opposed to spending money. But intelligent people always think differently. I already have a smart phone now I don't need to spend two thousand dollars to buy another smart phone where all my work is going on with the previous smart phone. I don't know how many people have thought about this matter that I said here. But everyone should think like this, maybe the investment will not give you big profit in short time but if you can make a habit of holding it for long time then I believe that investor will be successful after reading it for a long time.

So we have to give up some temporary happiness to achieve something better in the future.

In fact, we should think that it is better to invest the amount of money that is used to buy an iPhone for 1200 to 2000 dollars. If 1200 to 2000 dollars can be invested, then it will be seen that this money has doubled in a while. Although it takes time, if you can invest patiently, you will definitely succeed in your investment. However, not everyone will accept such offers. There are many who are busy fulfilling their various hobbies. Their hobbies are much more valuable to them. However, if I were you, I would definitely do the same thing. I would buy a phone for 150-200 dollars and fulfill my needs and invest the rest of the money in Bitcoin.

[lixer]

Getting the latest iPhone is just for short term happiness and satisfaction, while investing in bitcoin is already for long term approach, for our retirement, that even our future generation will eventually come to benefit. It’s a matter of satisfying your present desire than fulfilling your satisfaction in the future where financial independence and stability is a big part of it. So just do the math, and think where you can benefit the most, mentally, emotionally and financially.

Absolutely right, but almost all women don't care, they are ready for it, even if they will have to take out a loan for this iPhone later. In the country where I live, incomes are small and therefore girls are ready to pay for two years for an iPhone that they took out on borrowed money and I think that this is a very strange and ridiculous situation: to pay for something that will go out of fashion in a year, and the credit obligations will remain for another couple of years. This is ridiculous nonsense.

This must be true because on my observation, I've seen more women who have iPhones than compared to men. Usually a guy has an android because they are aware of its advantage. It allows them to do more things to it, while women are only in for fashion and iPhones are for fashion or display. This is the same where a women can buy a high-end bag. Some men can also spend more on something like a techy stuff, for example when building a powerful PC.

Sometimes when you are poor, you think things like iPhone are everything, so you do what you can to get your hands on them. It is like a big achievement which is also/only fine. It can also help you to be more motivated to work hard. It doesn't really matter though if it is not a kind of investment that grows in value the longer it gets but if we can also consider them why not? It is like we are now killing two birds with one stone here.

[KeenanEl19]

In my opinion, this is more about the difference in each person's perspective, my friend and I know about investing in bitcoin and others, but with my friend himself when he has enough money to invest, he prefers to spend it on gadgets that are currently popular among the public, which is none other than the iPhone.

Different from my other friend who understands IT and has little time to understand the world of bitcoin investment, but when he gets a moment when the price of bitcoin drops, he invests the funds he has.

It is better to invest it, but we cannot force other people to do it, after all, he will do it if he already has confidence in the investment.

[Mahanton]

There's nothing wrong on having that self reward and you do really that deserve it, specially if you have been long time saving up and sustaining all of those tough situations then buying up something for that hard work then its not really that bad at all. Just make it sure is that you wont really be that spending a huge amount or partition of your money. If its really that a huge amount that you do currently have then taking up some slice then its just really that fine but if its opposite then that should be a no go. You would be able to think about that there's so much important thing that you do need to prioritize on.

Investing while considering on buying an iPhone then its a no brainer on what are the things that you would really be needing up to prioritize. So it will really be that up to you on which one you would be choosing.
If you do want to save it for later then you can do but if you cant be able to wait then it will really be that up to you which one you would choose. You can see be able to make up some comparison in between decisions then you can make out point on which one is better.

People would prefer to live a horrible life that has absolutely no taste for 30 years, just so they can grow up and be fine when they are older. They are not even realizing what they are trading, because they are losing 30 of their greatest years, and instead they are being cheap and having no fun so that they can be wealthy.

This isn't about an iPhone by the way, if you do not want to get one, then don't, it is not really a big deal, I don't have one because I never felt the need to spend that much on some phone, why would I, but that doesn't mean I invested every dime I make neither, I had a good life. Sure I am not rich thanks to that, but I had a good life with my loved ones and I am happy with that in most cases.

Contentment is what we do really that want in life on which its true that even if we havent been able to buy an IPhone but it doesnt mean that we have made out some investment because we could possibly having none of these things either on which this one will be the most common scenario on which that could happen into this life. People are living on average to poor conditions but surprisingly there are those individuals who do really that wanting to buy this expensive phone just to show off or letting other people do sees out that they do have that good situation in life since they can afford an iPhone on which this is really that indeed a laughable way of thinking that a phone will really be that showing or indicates your life status. Investing will really be that just not limit out about on this aspect but also in other simple decisions in life on which it will really be giving out that kind of opportunity on making some investment. There are really just that those conditions on which it will really be that making yourself that wanting to buy something for yourself on which it isnt bad either just like on whats been said above on which it do acts as a reward or gift for yourself, but before that then you should be making out some calculations whether its the right time to buy this thing or would be trying out to prioritize those important things either? It all matters about on proper planning in regarding into your finances. It will really be just that a non worthy decision if you do buy an expensive thing but you do still have tons of pending loans and borrowed money from neither banks or other people. It will really be just that ideal and much more preferable on clearing up it first so that you wont really be that getting buried with tons of loans and other pending on which it will be causing up that financial devastation. Actually its not really that hard to determine on what are your priorities. If you do find out yourself that being easily get fascinated on whats the current trend, then its better that you should be trying out to distract yourself with that and avoid it as much as possible and better focus on your goal or just like been said on trying out to deal on what are those priorities first rather than on buying an expensive thing on which its value depreciates overtime.

[uneng]

In my opinion, this is more about the difference in each person's perspective, my friend and I know about investing in bitcoin and others, but with my friend himself when he has enough money to invest, he prefers to spend it on gadgets that are currently popular among the public, which is none other than the iPhone.

Different from my other friend who understands IT and has little time to understand the world of bitcoin investment, but when he gets a moment when the price of bitcoin drops, he invests the funds he has.

It is better to invest it, but we cannot force other people to do it, after all, he will do it if he already has confidence in the investment.

People who keep wasting money on gadgets and other superfluous stuff will never be able to thrive financially. On short term it may look inoffensive and just a lifestyle of the individual who prefers enjoying the present time's pleasures, but on long run it's a devastating behavior with serious consequences.

I've seen people spending their entire wages on clothes, shoes, jewels and gifts as soon as they receive it. After some decades these people are unhappy and frustrated because they achieved nothing substantial along the years of their youth. So they start getting annoyed by other people's achievements.

Of course it was their choice to live like that, but if we can advise friends and people in general about the potential negative consequences of not drawing long term plans, we should advise them.

[JeffBrad12]

One of my big regrets in the 90's was to buy a pc instead Microsoft shares, I could see the release of Win 1.0 and following versions would alter the world to the ordinary person as a magical box of tricks became a normal usable object.   I could have made do with educational provided pc and should have, so vs this iphone question its quite possible you should avoid a luxury product.

same here, regret not buying apple, microsoft, and the latest one nvidia shares, instead I bought their GPU which after 3 years already losing 80% of its value .
buying flagship of any company's product is like the worst decision I could make, especially when it come to electronics, the newest gen always outperform the old one by significant margin making the old gen kinda useless and since these tech derive value from the performance, it means value just gonna go down really fast over time.

people literally losing 80% of their money in just 3 years buying flagship without realizing it, if they were losing 80% of their money in stock or crypto they'd be mad .

[Koadharber]

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People would prefer to live a horrible life that has absolutely no taste for 30 years, just so they can grow up and be fine when they are older. They are not even realizing what they are trading, because they are losing 30 of their greatest years, and instead they are being cheap and having no fun so that they can be wealthy.

This isn't about an iPhone by the way, if you do not want to get one, then don't, it is not really a big deal, I don't have one because I never felt the need to spend that much on some phone, why would I, but that doesn't mean I invested every dime I make neither, I had a good life. Sure I am not rich thanks to that, but I had a good life with my loved ones and I am happy with that in most cases.

It all matters about someones mentality and we are the ones who do make out such decisions into our lives because on the time that we've been able to plot out our future plans then everything would really be set in stone. It will really be just that depending if you do let those things that you do able to face up will really be affecting your decisions ahead and this is something that we should really be that looking upon.

Buying a phone or anything which is really that expensive will really be depending into someones preference and someones interest because if you do really have that money then why you cant be able to do such thing? We do know that on the time that we do make out decisions like buying up into something will really be that needing up those considerations whether you do have an extra money to buy on? or you would really be that trying out to take a loan just because you do really want it so bad?

Investment decisions will really be that basing up on someones mentality and preference on which if you dont mind much about having that investment and wanting to buy just to show off, then you would definitely be considering on buying it out.

[Minor Miner]

I would like to ask OP and those who criticize buying an iPhone is a waste and investing in bitcoin would be wiser. Should we stop spending money on gambling and other useless entertainment activities and use that money to invest in bitcoin? Most of us here spend a lot of money on gambling or habits like drinking, girls, billiards...and we hardly get any profit from them. If we could invest that hard earned money in bitcoin instead of gambling, I'm sure many of us would have become rich. But why doesn't anyone do it or complain about it, and we criticize people who buy iPhones instead of investing in bitcoin?

[fikrett]

I would like to ask OP and those who criticize buying an iPhone is a waste and investing in bitcoin would be wiser. Should we stop spending money on gambling and other useless entertainment activities and use that money to invest in bitcoin? Most of us here spend a lot of money on gambling or habits like drinking, girls, billiards...and we hardly get any profit from them. If we could invest that hard earned money in bitcoin instead of gambling, I'm sure many of us would have become rich. But why doesn't anyone do it or complain about it, and we criticize people who buy iPhones instead of investing in bitcoin?

It's about whether you want to have more entertainment in life, whereas the phone may bring you more potential. But surely, there are cheaper ways to achieve the same goal, clearly.

[mvdheuvel1983]

I would like to ask OP and those who criticize buying an iPhone is a waste and investing in bitcoin would be wiser. Should we stop spending money on gambling and other useless entertainment activities and use that money to invest in bitcoin? Most of us here spend a lot of money on gambling or habits like drinking, girls, billiards...and we hardly get any profit from them. If we could invest that hard earned money in bitcoin instead of gambling, I'm sure many of us would have become rich. But why doesn't anyone do it or complain about it, and we criticize people who buy iPhones instead of investing in bitcoin?

I think OP decided to use the price of iPhone to make reference to other expensive things one can spend on that doesn't bring good returns to the person so to you Op it may be buying an iPhone but to you I believe you know the things you spend on on weekly or monthly basis that has not added anything good to you like the gambling and other things you may be doing for fun that only takes money from you, you can decide to minimize the expenses you make on those things to invest the money for a long term you will be sure of making profit from your investment in the future. The Op should also remember that there are some people who buy iPhones because of the types of things they do like the content creators who makes millions from content creation they can't invest in Bitcoin for a long term instead they will buy expensive iPhones because it helps them to make their vidoes more beautiful and they make good money from their content.

[GigaBit]

It is natural that the rich think one way and the poor think differently. There are some rich people who are not serious about spending money. They do what they need or what they want. For them, buying an iPhone is not wrong. I think if they have money, they can spend more. Moreover, rich people spend a lot on luxuries.

When we review this issue from the perspective of a poor person, investing that money is definitely more profitable than buying an iPhone. If this person wants to spend like that rich person, he will never be able to do that. He must spend money considering his future. He must be a saver and continue to make efforts to increase his wealth by investing. If he is able to hold onto that money by investing it in Bitcoin instead of buying an iPhone, he will eventually get a return that will help increase his wealth, but if he spends that money, he will fall further behind.

[Nwada001]

People buy iPhone for reason for personal reasons, some persons try to save their hard earn money to buy an iPhone because others are using or they are been influence by peer group, I think it is very unwise buying an iPhone worth around $700 without having a better source of income or an investment, investment is important because your are gradually growing your income and when your investment has grown to a certain level one can think of having an expensive iPhone but for those who has enough income or who's phone is part of their source of income that is for those who work online having an iPhone isn't bad since it generates income.

But if the person in question has a good source of income and has investments, using that amount to acquire gadgets shouldn't be a problem or considered to be a waste. There are people whose work needs them to use luxury just like Franky1 stated in the beginning of this thread. If you find yourself in such a position where the accessory you put on needs to speak for you and not your bank account, then it's nothing to buy and hold them. It's not just about peer pressure or feeling oppressed by your fellow friends but about using what you desire and want.

[Zadicar]

People buy iPhone for reason for personal reasons, some persons try to save their hard earn money to buy an iPhone because others are using or they are been influence by peer group, I think it is very unwise buying an iPhone worth around $700 without having a better source of income or an investment, investment is important because your are gradually growing your income and when your investment has grown to a certain level one can think of having an expensive iPhone but for those who has enough income or who's phone is part of their source of income that is for those who work online having an iPhone isn't bad since it generates income.

But if the person in question has a good source of income and has investments, using that amount to acquire gadgets shouldn't be a problem or considered to be a waste. There are people whose work needs them to use luxury just like Franky1 stated in the beginning of this thread. If you find yourself in such a position where the accessory you put on needs to speak for you and not your bank account, then it's nothing to buy and hold them. It's not just about peer pressure or feeling oppressed by your fellow friends but about using what you desire and want.

All matters with your buying power on which on the moment that you would really be having that kind of capability on buying up these things without that affecting your financial status then it do really shows that you are really that capable enough and this is something that you would really be needing up to consider. Investment decisions will really be that basing up into your capability on such situation because if you are that having no capability on doing such thing and you've been that forced on taking up a loan to buy just because you've seen your friends does have, then it will really be that a very huge problem on this case. Buying up an iPhone isnt really that an issue on which i do agree into those words above that as long it wont really be giving out such impact into your money or savings then its just really fine.

Its true that they are really that making it as a status symbol when you do have these things then people will really be that getting amazed and this is what they've been thinking. Its part of our pride on really that wanting to experience those kind of views towards by other people.

[Ishicryptic]

We always think of doing something for long term but we regularly spend a lot of money for short term happiness. I am not saying this for those who have a lot of money, but for those who don't have that much money, there is no need to buy an iphone for around $1200 to $2000 right now. 

Maybe buying an iPhone will give that person temporary happiness but when a person spends that amount of money on investment without buying an iPhone, but in the future he will get a good amount of profit from this investment and it will be seen that he can buy more iPhones from the profit of that investment. But our brains think very little like this, we prioritize what we get in the short term or what happiness we get for the short term as opposed to spending money. But intelligent people always think differently. I already have a smart phone now I don't need to spend two thousand dollars to buy another smart phone where all my work is going on with the previous smart phone. I don't know how many people have thought about this matter that I said here. But everyone should think like this, maybe the investment will not give you big profit in short time but if you can make a habit of holding it for long time then I believe that investor will be successful after reading it for a long time.

So we have to give up some temporary happiness to achieve something better in the future.

I am happy that your emphasis is on people that cannot conveniently afford an iphone, if the job of such people doesn't include the functions of an iphone, it will be a misplaced priority. People should not buy expensive phones just to impress others when they can use the money to purchase what will add value to them, like Bitcoin which will yeild profit on the long term and they can use it to buy the latest iphone model in the future. Many young people are fund of buying iphones that they don't even understand all the functions, they only use it for calls and social media, something that android phones which are for cheaper can do for them.