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Cheap status symbols are a bit of a paradox. They are purchased with the intent of being indistinguishable from luxury status symbol at a distance, even though
by deckar01 7y ago
Cheap status symbols are a bit of a paradox. They are purchased with the intent of being indistinguishable from luxury status symbol at a distance, even though the quality of the item is what gives it status. There is an entire industry of forgery and a culture of shaming because of this.
- perl4ever 7y agoMany commenters in this thread seem not to have imagined that people get pleasure from owning and using attractive things. I mean, hardly anything has the same appeal to everyone, but most luxury items that are aimed at the middle and upper middle class have more resources spent on making them attractive to look at and use. It's not as though being a "status symbol" was just an arbitrary thing unrelated to that. Conformity and symbolism are part of the value, but only one part.