"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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Medieval Christianity vibes
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We also see examples like richest human Jeff Bezos Amazon paying no tax while cutting health coverage for employees. He can afford to do this and have wine caves, but only does the latter while using $ to squeeze states n competitors. It may be legal now; is it prosocial?
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Er, I think the (rather obvious) point she was making was that there isn’t enough public investment in trains, leading to there being too few, which in turn become overcrowded.
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