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The dollar that pays of my payday loan, or gets me a security security deposit at an apartment, has huge marginal value.

Growing from subsistence to investment has near infinite. Marginal utility.

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You could just as well say that the cent that buys you a soda has a bigger marginal utility than the previous one. Sure, maybe in the context of that one transaction, but not in any general way.

Except that paying off your proximate debt and securing a place to live is far more important, from a Maslow sense, than buying a soda?

Depends, are you thirsty?

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Doesn't matter, the principle is the same.

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