-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Tom Walker
Has it occurred to anyone that the putative Calvinist leftist's "lust for suffering" may simply be a form of conspicuous consumption (or in this case conspicuous unconsumption) that performs or is intended to perform the same status function that much consumption of wealth performs, once we move a way from literalist interpretations of utility?
The Sandwichman
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'More radical than thou' as a positional goods paradox...........Whoddathunkit.