Jailhouse Chic

[Michael Perelman]

Didn't Veblen write about the rich emulating the styles of the very poor,
since the very poor and the rich were the only two classes with excessive
leisure?

Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > Sure commodity fetishism is an old trick, but this nostalgie de la
> > boue is a startlingly new variation. In earlier eras, the alienated
> > masses wanted to mimic the look of the affluent, not those doing hard
> > time.
>
> Come now, Carl.  There's nothing new about poor people idolizing bandit
> kings.
>
> Michael
>
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Michael Perelman
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