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As a side note, purple dye was a Veblen good. Anything purple instantly signified wealth because they made purple dye by collecting 10k snails per gram of dye h
by monero-xmr 2y ago
As a side note, purple dye was a Veblen good. Anything purple instantly signified wealth because they made purple dye by collecting 10k snails per gram of dye https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple
Just like rich people buy fancy watches that serve no purpose other than signifying wealth, imagine walking down the road in clothing that took thousands of laborers (slaves) thousands of hours to produce. Epic level of flexing on the peasants
- myroon5 2y agoFashion's still quite an animal-intensive production: https://genv.org/vegan-fashion-looking-at-leather-wool-fur-and-silk/ https://genv.org/vegan-fashion-looking-at-leather-wool-fur-a... https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9drbh8sKzzykaX38P/the-scale-of-direct-human-impact-on-invertebrates https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9drbh8sKzzykaX38P/...