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The person who’d use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 23, 2026
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caring about others — Nikodem Nijaki / CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

Some people would happily wreck your $1,000 suit to mop up a spill, because the small amount of utility it beats the hurt it causes you. Writing on the blog Atoms vs Bits, Uri uses that as the bottom of a scale — how much weight a person gives your wellbeing next to their own.

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