"Wine caves" is a strong meme for Current Day, both for the socialist-leaning left in earnest and their opposition in satire, because it so clearly illustrates that the perceived enemy is not necessarily power, but luxury itself.
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It's not exorbitantly expensive to visit a winery and have a meal and tasting in a beautiful space, but it *is* a pure leisure activity, and the left is predicating its claim to power on the idea that the world is zero sum, and there are thus no resources to waste on oneself
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This is why we see, for example, Greta Thunberg posing on the floor of a train, **even as she tries to encourage further train use!** Demonstrated self-deprivation is not a criticism, but an aesthetic.
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(By all accounts, Greta spent part of her trip without a seat, and part in a first class seat. I think it's unfortunate that she's receiving criticism for it, because to her it probably reinforces the idea that there's something wrong with enjoying nice things freely given.)
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The "$900 wine" comment is telling, because it's not surprising that someone who owns a winery would have nice wine, or serve it on special occasions. So what's the problem? That they had valuable wine in the first place, or that they gave it away rather than selling it?
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It's important to remember that a poverty aesthetic is nothing new, and common to many philosophical traditions & religions. But it doesn't procure progress toward better human quality of life, which is why it really ought to stay out of politics/government/resource allocation
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A note: the opposite of a bad thing is not necessarily a good thing. It is not wrong to buy enjoyable things, but there is a flavor of consumption the assumes the scarcity itself is the source of enjoyment: this is good because *only* I can have it. This does society no good.
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“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” <— turns out the left thinks leisure isn’t a need and hence anyone who wants to enjoy leisure is a baddie.
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This relates to my awkward stance on Billionaires as boogie-men. I’m not at all bothered by Warren Buffet’s responsible stewardship of billions in capital but feel deeply grossed out by displays of wealth that represent the expenditure of resources (jets, yachts, mansions, etc)
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The ticket price for the event was $500 up to $2800. A tasting at that winery costs $250. With an attendance of 50 people, that's $12500 to $127500 wasted on Mayor Pete.
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So your saying the production possibilities frontier does not exist no?
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Very true. We find something like this in ancient wisdom. “Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency” — Aristotle So enjoy life but avoid excess, snobbery, and classism. This goes for the left and right. The poor and rich.
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