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> The lengths wealthy people go to outdo one another are just absurd. Have you heard of "luxury beliefs"? [1] [1]: https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-belief

• 082349872349872 6y ago
  That's amazing: "middle class" (pedantically, upper working?) beliefs rebranded as "luxury". In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king?
  • HeyLaughingBoy 6y ago
    As a former New Yorker, I learned to take anything in the NY Post with a very large grain of salt. In my mind, they have yet to live down the "Headless body found in topless bar" front page article. https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-critic-vincent-musetto-dies-at-74/ https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-...
    • JackFr 6y ago
      A fully accurate headline and article, also reported on by all major NY newspapers, albeit under less clever headlines.
• philwelch 6y ago
  That is slightly different. Wealthy people who want to signal wealth display conspicuously expensive things, which pineapples once were. That’s obvious enough. Luxury beliefs are about expressing class, which is distinct from wealth though somewhat correlated. In fact, signaling wealth, or signaling it crudely enough, often signals lower class.