Can I tell you about the most amazing side business I’ve ever heard of?

twitter.com

11 points·koboll··6 comments

We had a bank teller who would drive around all the new home construction areas in town, and take photos of houses under construction, especially in middle to upper income areas. She did this for a year, with a plan in mind.
...

It was ALL profit, almost zero overhead.

I guess it's a clever concept, especially if you enjoy driving around town taking photos of homes under construction. But that sounds like a lot of overhead to me.

On the other, if this was supposed to be a spoof of side-hustle culture... well done.

I could legitimately see middle class homeowners in the suburbs paying for this. I think my mom would want to buy the pictures, but my dad would talk her out of it. I don't know why, but it disgusts me that people would pay for that. There's something about the upper middle class suburbs that bothers me, and this fits right into that.

It disgusts you that people would pay for something they derive pleasure from?

Yes. Is that so hard to fathom? I think it is the excess of it that gets me, like people paying for fancy bottled water in places that have very good tap water. Yeah, they derive pleasure from that "fancy" water, but it disgusts me nonetheless that they would waste their money on that.

For some people, it's probably a happy reminder of a time of growth, anticipating a new chapter in their lives.

It is yeah, the whole idea of middle class is that people have money to spare on luxury. To me that's the ideal of civilization, where people don't have to worry (much) about the day to day, and can spend their social credit on the things they love and derive pleasure from. Whether that's drinking a coffee with their friends or family, visiting the movie theatre, or looking at pictures of their home under construction.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com