Danielle Vermeer

Eschewing an overt materialism, the rich are investing significantly more in education, retirement and health. Education accounts for almost 6% of top 1% household expenditures, compared with just over 1% of middle-income spending. Inconspicuous consumption confers social mobility.

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Human communication is based on the exchange of social signals that are essentially multimodal. If these signals deviated from expected patterns, this indicated problems in the communication. The pattern of deviation identified the type of problem suggesting how to repair it. 

When you visibly repair something, it becomes individual. That changes our relationship to our clothing and builds connection with it.

The more desirable future is outlined in Q1, with authenticated items being on sale in curated settings. Here is where Web3 comes in as a value add to physical goods as one of the most reliable authentication mechanisms that also lends scale and durability.