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A classic case of supply exceeding demand, cratering value
by dugite-code 2y ago
A classic case of supply exceeding demand, cratering value
- hyperadvanced 2y agoI think that’s a bit simplistic. There are still a lot of plates, some of them go for $20 a piece are on people’s wedding registries. They’re “artisanal”. They’re what the fancy restaurants serve your food on. They might even be mass produced. They’re in the Williams Sonoma catalog. But they certainly aren’t decorated like old plates were. There’s a lot of art-historical and economics and social factors that shape these kinds of things. While I think the author is right to look at consumer capitalism, I don’t think aesthetics can be so neatly boiled down in the way that he tries to.