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Comment by hundchenkatze | Hacker News Reader

Did you reply to the wrong person? The person you're replying to said nothing about buying expensive chairs.

His comment seems reasonable in context. The article is about poor posture, with chairs and laptops being indicated from the initial image. The initial comment says that nothing has changed for them, implying that their home office setup is just as good as their pre-covid office setup. The reply is to that implicit statement, saying that office chairs are quite expensive, so not everyone is able to reproduce the same setup in a home office.

These are not explicitly stated in the comments, but can be reasonably inferred from the context.

Precisely. Sorry if I didn't choose my words better GP.

Posture has nothing to do with your chair, and everything to do with how you sit on it. I've literally sat in front of my computer since I was 9 years old, on anything from old kitchen chairs to the cheapest, crappiest big-box store models.. Actually, the only place I've ever sat on an expensive chair has been in the office, and it was not that much better.. It's all about how you sit..

I sit in many weird positions throughout the day.. lean back, feet on a box. straight up and down, legs crossed, lotus, and yes, I squat on it too.. sometimes on my knees, sometimes the chair reversed.. pretty much anything that keeps my head above the table.. totally privileged, I know :)

Hell, the last chair was thrown out after it literally broke apart, it and before it did, it was crooked to one side for a few years. I'm 35 now, my back is perfectly fine. It's not about the stuff you've got, it's about you.

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