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The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals

 

http://www.barneys.com/designer/golden-goose/N-oarw82


Oh.

 

Gross.

 

are these $600 shoes that are made to look worn

 

They are. The duct tape ones are my favorite.

 

I can never wrap my head around products like these. The materials alone can't be worth that much right? So you're paying only for the brand name? How does a brand eventually have the ability to charge that much when the cost of the goods themselves aren't even that high? Can I just create a shoe company and charge $1,500 a pair and let people buy them purely as a status symbol type of purchase? #confused

 

Well, everything is marked up higher than the cost of the raw materials. Otherwise, everything would be sold at a loss.

 

Barneys is selling a $265 Black Flag T-shirt for the modern punk

 

Lol. Like guns aren't a business too.

 

Libertarians, like pregnant women, are smug.

 

Seems like all third party people are self-righteous as shit.

 

They're just trolling now.

 

I would vote for Garfunkel and Oates for president

 

I mean, yeah. I know that. I'm more confused over how some brands can charge $600 for a pair of shoes and actually convince people to buy them when you can get something similar for $50.

 

I actually read something on the internet recently by a bunch of capitalists who were claiming that the single most detrimental development in modern capitalism was commercialization and obsession with advertisement wherein inferior products outpace and outsell superior products. It's pretty interesting, although I would opine that there have been more macro level policy developments that are worse, but nevertheless.

But, yeah, I agree that it's insane. I don't wear name brand clothes and, honestly, since a fairly young age I've never been inclined to.

 

I am so annoyingly frugal that I just can't grasp it.

 

Except I think that's like...the opposite of this case. This isn't a detriment to capitalism...it's one of the eventualities of it. It's not an inferior product; it's an expensive one...for rich people to buy. Though there's probably something to be said about not even letting the people destroyed by wealth inequality identify with their lives

 

Also that looks like a dog bite. Source: small dog left a smiley face on my wrist once.