> My god. Gucci's don't go for $3,000 - that's 5-10 times too high
> <http://www.gucci.com/us/us-english/us/spring-summer-05/womens-shoes/view_all_pumps.shtml>.
> In any case, I'm aware of how much stuff costs. My office is in Soho,
> and I'm here almost every day, surrounded by luxury goods, in boutiques
> and on people. Yeah, sure, there's conspicuous consumption going on, at
> highly inflated prices. But the stuff is still beautiful - why deny
> that? Why shouldn't socialists and their ideological kin want beautiful
> things for everyone, and not just the rich? Why not beautiful
> buildings, streets, cities? Why always the moralizing about pricetags?
Amen. As I've said on several occasions, anarchists aren't against gourmet (or excellent) food, we're against the international system of capitalism that limits that food to a few wealthy mouths.
Cue side discussion about the ugliness of Z Magazine.
Chuck