"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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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".
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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Yep. Nice things aren't bad because they're scarce. What's bad is the scarcity, and our best answer to this has to be to make more nice things.
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There *is* something weird about positional goods, though, because the whole point of $900 wine is to be unaffordable by people who don't have $900 to spend on wine. No expansion of supply will change that.
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Exactly. I ate a Peking Duck yesterday that'd cost $160 if served at a classy restaurant (it's big enough for 4 meals). I'm poor, but grew it, killed it, and cooked it myself. A vineyard owner serving expensive wine they made themselves is nearly the same as serving boxed wine.
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"Craig and Kathryn Hall, who own Hall Rutherford winery in Napa Valley, told The Associated Press:" "It seems someone's intentionally trying to create a different image than the reality," Craig Hall told the news outlet. "And that's unfortunate."pic.twitter.com/EjYog0jmBu
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