And if I am rich, it’s worth half a million dollars to produce a false semblance of animacy on my arm?
↑ I don’t buy it. Seems much cheaper ways to get that experience.
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I think there’s an element of decisive estrangement in conspicuous consumption, in that it’s not sufficient to just buy expensive things, but to buy weird expensive things—to distinguish your “taste” from others, and disrupt an existing hierarchy
but i think the idea of spectacle and waste, like bataille talks about with “potlach”, are indispensable to either, which is why dollar amounts dominate the Discourse—like the contemporary art market, another amusing scam rich people play on each other
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