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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/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.

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Might 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.

Nah, 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.

It'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.

$40 in 1970 would be $269.50 today. That seems like a luxury straw..

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+2021

As 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

That's about the price of a previous-gen video game console with a game or two, not really a luxury good IMO.

If 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.

When a literal post-it note will achieve the same function, it most definitely is a luxury. It's just another form of peacocking.

many 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.

Film and games glorifying defiance of authority.

Everyone listens to the gods in ancient myth, as we know.

Typically, they paid for it. Hubris was sin, you know, and the myths were didactic.

Defying authority is glorious much of the time.

Today. But many first-world regimes seem to be on the cusp of ending that perspective.

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