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My mother is currently unemployed after Wells Fargo went on a shutdown spree of old Wachovia locations, and spends her time knitting and sewing. I told her she
by zanny 14y ago
My mother is currently unemployed after Wells Fargo went on a shutdown spree of old Wachovia locations, and spends her time knitting and sewing. I told her she should seriously consider making custom pony plushes full time because they sell at such an absurd scarcity markup. I've heard of them selling for over a thousand dollars for $10 worth of materials and 4 hours of time.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoSimilar things happened with Pokemon dolls in the '90s, but I think it's a bit more "intense" this time because the buyer demographic includes a lot more teens and 20-somethings with actual disposable income. But rather than toy fads, I was more referring to how each character or doll has accessories paired to them and only them. So rather than buying 2 dolls and 5 generic dresses and swapping pieces between the dolls, they're now selling 6 dolls with 6 dresses, plus more stupid little accessories and such. My hypothesis was that as manufacturing of consumer goods gets cheaper and processes get better, real people are going to stop consuming mass-manufactured goods entirely and start to become more like the dolls. Instead of my buying clothes at a department store (for instance), and thus wearing much the same stuff as my friends, family and coworkers, it will start to become economical for me to go to a neo-clothier and purchase items specifically measured, designed, cut, manufactured and adjusted for me. Quality and uniqueness start to become emphasized in consumer goods over mass-production quantities. Basically, "The Diamond Age". As people say, "the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed."