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What Does 'Gram Arbitrage' Mean?

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Spending a significant amount of money to save a very small amount of gear weight, a specific pattern of ultralight spending that trades cost heavily against marginal weight gains.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Paid eighty dollars to save eleven grams, peak gram arbitrage."

LORE & ORIGIN

A predictive term borrowing 'arbitrage' from financial vocabulary to describe the ultralight community's willingness to pay disproportionately high prices for marginal weight savings.

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