Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

"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.

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

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.

(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.)

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?

It's that only a select few people in the entire world have the disposable income to spend $900 on a bottle of wine, and those people support the mayor. Duh.

They didn't buy the wine; the event was hosted by a family who owns a winery. They'd have paid no more or less for it, regardless of their disposable income, if it'd been a bottle valued at $9 or $9,000.

Admittedly, political fundraisers are expensive to attend. Because, you know, they're fundraisers. Donors attend. Few people have the disposable income to do so. I guarantee you that I cannot afford to be in the presence of any of these candidates at a fundraiser, Warren included