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by throwaway5752 5y ago
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MgX_VMXj3Sc/YZvryBNXhUI/AAAAAAAAg9U/rXkRbEWda2EodsNoiLcyf7MbSm0QtOnVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1351/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s%2B%252833%2529.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MgX_VMXj3Sc/YZvryBNXhUI/AAAAAAAAg... "finest center cuts of imported African ivory"
Wow. That and https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3Xc47mDO8E/YZvrzIxkirI/AAAAAAAAg9c/qZGhTHJnUNALEmSpL-JPIidE1xcD8p-IgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1410/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s%2B%252835%2529.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3Xc47mDO8E/YZvrzIxkirI/AAAAAAAAg... ("solid Honduras mahogany") really hit me.
I wonder what they see 50 years from now and shake their heads about what we squandered. My guess is "wild caught salmon" and atoll beach resorts.
- dsizzle 5y agoMight take longer than 50 years, but I would bet things go even further to simply "salmon" -- the not-lab-grown variety, that is, and same for other meat.
- galangalalgol 5y agoNah, all they will eat is salmon, it will be excess from the iron fertilization they use to counteract global warming. They will have to harvest the salmon boom to protect the algae bloom or the albedo will drop and cook everyone.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt's funny that these are marketed as luxury products that sell for under $40. I mean, I know inflation is a thing, but $40 was not a lot of money back then.
- beaconstudios 5y agomany products promoted as "luxury" are about telling middle class people that their products imitate upper class signals, without that actually being true. Thus they're usually expensive for a salaried worker but not beyond affordable - whereas products that the upper class genuinely use to signal are well beyond the balance of wage labourers.
- andruby 5y ago$40 in 1970 would be $269.50 today. That seems like a luxury straw.. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+2021 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+2021
- notreallyserio 5y agoThat's about the price of a previous-gen video game console with a game or two, not really a luxury good IMO.
- Forbo 5y agoWhen a literal post-it note will achieve the same function, it most definitely is a luxury. It's just another form of peacocking.
- InitialLastName 5y agoIf you're getting as much entertainment out of a straw as a video game console and 2 games, you might be in the target audience for these ads.
- mahogany 5y agoAs a side note: the 70s saw a particularly high level of inflation. Note that the equivalent price in 1980 was ~$85, so it doubled in one decade. If that level of inflation stayed constant (doubling every decade), then it would be equivalent to about $1,280 today. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+1980 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+1980
- dotancohen 5y agoFilm and games glorifying defiance of authority.
- frostburg 5y agoEveryone listens to the gods in ancient myth, as we know.
- germinalphrase 5y agoTypically, they paid for it. Hubris was sin, you know, and the myths were didactic.
- pjbeam 5y agoDefying authority is glorious much of the time.
- dotancohen 5y agoToday. But many first-world regimes seem to be on the cusp of ending that perspective.
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