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I don't know why the GP poster is being downvoted. For most of the world's population, $500 is not cheap.

I find it difficult to categorize the desk, a tool for productivity, as a luxury. I know that's just personal bias speaking, though.

The market supplies alternatives of varying degrees of quality, functionality, and design for ordinary desks. I wish there was equal demand for standing desks. Nothing ever seems to bring down the prices for them.

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For $100k/year workers (the main HN audience), it's cheap. Especially considering it, along with a chair and a computer, is by far the most important tools for said audience.

> For $100k/year workers (the main HN audience), it's cheap

So you don't believe the tale that the primary audience for Hacker News are actually working on startups?

If someone can't afford US$500, they can make a desk out of a plank of wood on top of some bricks or old furniture. A standup desk is a minor modification. One can then put a bunk bed for sleeping above the desk, and thus share the room with co-founders. Co-founders can then take turns sleeping in the car.

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