"I feel poor because it's a hardship to obtain a good with little practical utility over a cheaper alternative that serves as a class signalling device" Me (pointing): "bourgeois! That's bourgeois!"

You can resolve people's material needs through politics. You can't resolve people's desire to purchase class signals because people's desire to improve their relative class position is definitionally impossible to satisfy

Is it that time again to do “your consumption choices do not signal economic prosperity or doom”?

For the price of one 80's NES game, not adjusted for inflation, I just got a full function tablet with a year subscription to a whole library of games, books and movies

man this discourse makes me feel rich as fuck ngl