My response to a comment that has been deleted while I wrote this: > One is significantly harder and has more utility than the other, indicating an achievement

My response to a comment that has been deleted while I wrote this: > One is significantly harder and has more utility than the other, indicating an achievement in knowledge and application of that knowledge rather than using figuring out ways to sell people status signals. But which is which? Because this could apply in both directions. Bags are undeniably useful, even if LVMH's are ridiculously overpriced. But people have also always complained that Apple is overpriced, and mostly selling people status signals. And Apple is the most respectable of the Big US companies, because Tesla is all hype, Google blatantly abandoned its "don't be evil" creed, and Amazon is known for its inhuman labour conditions. I don't think any of these are companies to be proud of. We need better. And better is probably not bigger.