Dear Poor Lucky Me,
I am an avid music collector, and have been since I was 12. Over the past 5 years I’ve put a lot of time and effort into transferring my music to digital files. Now I have a well organized iTunes collection, that will make any music lover jealous.
But then one night I woke up in a cold sweat: what will happen if the economy fails and we all have to live off the grid? I’m just not sure that my computer will still work. I’m so worried that I made a huge mistake taking everything digital. Maybe I should have gone to vinyl- something that if push comes to shove I could build a player that works with a solar panel or something?
What do you think? I tried calling Apple, but I guess they thought I was kidding because they kept hanging up on me.
Yours,
Terrified Music Lover
Dear T.M.L.,
I felt the same trepidation after I bought a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Beside the fear of buying a $500 vacuum cleaner and never using it, I was concerned what would happen if we were taken off the traditional power grid and everything had to be converted to wind or solar or natural gas. Would the government subsidize another vacuum? I doubt it! But I had to just close my eyes and hand over my credit card because I had been obsessing about the Dyson for so long. There is something so intriguing about the guy on the commercials, he’s impossible to resist!
In the end, it turned out the valid fear was that I don’t really clean my apartment so I never use it. The simplest answer is usually the most logical, right? I think that’s Occam’s razor.
You’re more likely to lose your music collection by not backing it up than to be faced with what to do when society fails and you have no where to charge your iPod.
Sincerely,
Poor Lucky Me
