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Anything you paid for and value is gone the moment you stop wanting it.
means To use up, destroy, or fail to use something valuable with no worthwhile result.
from From Old French 'waster' (to spoil, damage), itself from Latin 'vastare' (to lay waste, devastate) — the same root that gives us 'devastate.' Vastare in turn comes from 'vastus,' meaning empty or desolate, the word Romans used for ravaged land or a barren wilderness. So before it meant squandering your money or time, 'waste' meant something closer to scorched earth — a place emptied of everything worth having.
- same root
- Vast and waste share the same Latin ancestor
- food waste
- About a third of all food produced is wasted
- legal fossil
- English property law still uses waste for property damage
- economics term
- Deadweight loss is just waste with a fancier degree