"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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If you make wine, whose fault is it that someone is willing to pay $900 for it? Yours, for making such a wine?
It's really important that we achieve clarity on this, because the perspective worth fighting is the one that ends in cutting down the vines to prevent decadence. The problem isn't good wine, it's that there is not yet enough of it for everyone who'd like to have some to do so.
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I agree! I presume in this case it's meant to be society's fault for containing people with nothing better to do with $900 than spend it on over-priced wine. Of course, this shifts responsibility away from individuals an on to "the system".
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Right, but this is precisely why it's a problem that we still complain about "$900 wine" **even when no money is exchanged.** It shifts the focus from poor resource allocation to a derision of nice things *in principle,* which is exactly how you end up with a poverty aesthetic.
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You're right that achieving clarity is important, but the reason the $900 bottle is bad is because that price only arises in a market if there are a significant number of people with so much wealth that they can't possibly spend it all and so have no inhibitions bidding up prices
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