Status Updates From Why We Hate Cheap Things (E...

so it turns out the author is kind of horny as well? Their last thrust (this book doesn't really have a focused point, it's just random meanderings sort of on a theme) is that we should use sex to sell high class/morality/ideal things, not just low-end things like beer. Why? Because the body is beautiful and a temple I guess?

Yeah ... sure ... ok. We could just appeal to other beautiful things about humanity, but ok

I definitely don't identify with most of this. I don't think I pick things based on what other people think? I guess I pick things based on what groups I trust consider the best under my parameters? That sometimes throws me for a look but it's not philosophical; it's ... what makes a good vacuum cleaner.

I don't think the writer knows how children works, children can be obsessive over favourite shows.

I remember the argument in this section being true for me, not for cost reasons, but for books. The more books I owned, the more cultured I would be. Except it turns out I didn't have time to read all these new books :)

Beyond that I guess I'm just not the class that feels this urge. Also the Catholic metaphor feels stretched, but I don't know the author's experience with Catholicism.

Ah, and here we get to the the need for post-secondary reform. Perhaps this book was written as an graduate thesis :) It definitely is written for the academically inclined.

In general I think the book's arguments are true. Do I think they are key to the posed general problem of cost and wealth perception? That I am less convinced of.

I buy these arguments in a historical sense but it feels like the kind of think that applies mostly to affluent middle-class-or-higher white or white-assimilated people.

A lot of these views of respect correlating to cost don't apply top people I know outside the above framework.

I see where this book is going, that dominant culture always conflated economic and functional and desirability value to things, but I feel that is less true of mass production and say fast fashion, where cheap and reproducible can often be a value itself; the book may also ignore major demographics of people (the poor, immigrants, etc...) for whom cost perceived relative cost means little against other things